INSCRIBED BY WILDE
Poems
David Bogue, 1882.
Fourth edition. 8vo. Full white parchment lettered and with floral decoration in gilt. Printed on Van Gelder hand made paper. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the verso of the half title, 'With compliments of the author, to Mrs Russell Stephenson. Montreal. May. 21st'. Housed in a custom half green morocco, green cloth box. A very good copy indeed with a little dustiness to the vellum and slight bumping to the spine ends.
During his North American tour, Oscar Wilde visited Montreal, where he delivered a lecture on the 16th of May. On the 20th of May, he received an invitation from the Women's Hospital Committee to present a lecture titled 'The House Beautiful'. Many of the audience, predominately women, dressed in costume and offered Wilde an enthusiastic welcome. This particular copy was inscribed the following day for Mrs Russell Stephenson, a well known socialite of Montreal.
PROVENANCE: Martin Secker (London Publisher, bookplate on the front pastedown. In 1913 he published Arthur Ransome's "Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study").
Mason [307]
Stock ID: 46734
£27,500.00
