After Reading: The Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
- Hardcover
- Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921
Westminster: Beaumont Press, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ethelbert White. Thin 8vo. (60)pp. Cloth spine, gilt. Patterned paper over boards. Finely printed letterpress on handmade paper. Woodcut cover and decorations by Ethelbert White. One of 400 numbered copies from a totla edition of 475, this is number 455. A near fine copy.
"The letters included in this volume were written by Oscar Wilde to his friend Robert Ross during the summer of 1897. Wilde was released on Wednesday, May 19th, after completing his sentence of two years imprisonment, and on that day he crossed with a friend to Dieppe where he was met by Robert Ross to whom he at once handed the manuscript of his prison letter no known as 'De Profundis'.
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Details
Title
After Reading: The Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross
Author
Wilde, Oscar
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Near Fine
Publisher
Beaumont Press: Westminster
Date
1921
Edition
Limited edition