[Collected Edition of Oscar Wilde's works, comprising] Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. and Other Stories; [together with] The Duchess of Padua : A Play; Poems : with the Ballad of Reading Gaol; Lady Windermere's Fan : A Play About a Good Woman; A Woman of No Importance : A Play; An Ideal Husband : A Play; The Importance of Being Earnest : A Trivial Comedy for Serious People; A House of Pomegranates; Intentions; De Profundis; Essays and Lectures; Salomé, La Sainte Courtisane, A Florentine Tragedy; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Salomé : A Tragedy In One Act . . . with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley [offered with:] Oscar Wilde and His Mother : A Memoir
London: Methuen [through 1912], 1909. Decorative Cloth. A superb set of the First Foolscap Octavo Edition (Second Collected Edition) of Wilde's works, in 14 matching publisher's bindings, issued as separate volumes beginning in 1909 (twelve by Methuen, one by Charles Carrington of Paris, and one by John Lane). Publisher's bright..... more