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WILDE (Oscar). Salome. Drama in one Act. Paris, 1920. - Large in-8, 277 x 190: 84 pp, (1 f.), 16 plates. Violet jansenist morocco, smooth spine, painted silk lining and endpapers with stylized foliage motifs in red and violet tones, gilt head, untrimmed (Christiane Blanchet). Deluxe edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 16 black out-of-text compositions by Aubrey Beardsley. It was intended to replace the 1907 edition of 500 copies, part of which had been destroyed in the flood of 1910. One of 250 copies on Arches laid paper (no. 253), well bound by Christiane Blanchet. Spine faded. Two stains on the bottom of pages 78-79.
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WILDE (Oscar). Salome. Drama in one Act. Paris, 1920. - Large in-8, 277 x 190: 84 pp, (1 f.), 16 plates. Violet jansenist morocco, smooth spine, painted silk lining and endpapers with stylized foliage motifs in red and violet tones, gilt head, untrimmed (Christiane Blanchet). Deluxe edition of 290 copies, illustrated with 16 black out-of-text compositions by Aubrey Beardsley. It was intended to replace the 1907 edition of 500 copies, part of which had been destroyed in the flood of 1910. One of 250 copies on Arches laid paper (no. 253), well bound by Christiane Blanchet. Spine faded. Two stains on the bottom of pages 78-79.
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