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Item Description

8vo in fours. 9 x 6 inches. [viii] + 31 pp. printed on recto only. Bound in cream cloth, gilt, over cinnamon boards. Deckled edges. Spine sunned, a little wear to extremities, page edges browned and some scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. 1913 gift inscription on first free endpaper. Oscar Wilde's famous poem relating events in Reading Gaol during his two year incarceration, written in France after his release. Issued by the publisher of the first edition of 1898, one of the unauthorised editions based on the seventh, which was the first to have the title page bearing the author's name in square brackets below his prisoner designation. The name also appears on the spine.