INTENTIONS ... THE DECAY OF LYING PEN PENCIL AND POISON THE CRITIC AS ARTIST THE TRUTH OF MASKS
[nd. but ca. 1891?]. · New York
by Wilde, Oscar
New York: Dodd, Mead, [nd. but ca. 1891?].. Rose cloth over boards, lettered in yellow, top edge stained brown. Spine a trifle darkened, with some hand-smudging to cloth, small nick at crown of spine, but a very good copy. An American issue of the British sheets. Mason/Millard was unable to examine a copy of the American issue of the first edition sheets, but describes a literal date in the title-imprint, in a binding of the same color of cloth as this copy, with the same overall dimensions. However, the American issue of the second London edition does bear a literal date (1894) in the title imprint, and is bound in tan cloth. Hence the copy in hand is most likely not a variant of the American issue of the second edition, and may very well be the American issue of the first edition sheets (600 copies), at variance from Mason/Millard's speculative description. With the pencil ownership inscription of American publisher Ingalls Kimball, dated Chicago August 1894. MASON/MILLARD 343. (Inventory #: WRCLIT61926)