The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde.

WILDE, Oscar.

Item Number: 61080

London: Methuen & Co, 1908.

First collected edition of Wilde’s works, limited to 1,000 sets made on handmade paper. Octavo, 14 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt topstain, deckled pages. Copyright in The Picture of Dorian Gray was held by Charles Carrington, so that volume alone appears with his Paris imprint, the rest with with the Methuen imprint. In fine condition. An exceptional set.

Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.