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Author: Wilde, Oscar
Title: An Ideal Husband
Place Published: London
Publisher:Leonard Smithers and Co.
Date Published: 1899
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[xvi], 213, [1] pp. (Small 4to) 21x15 cm (8¼x6") publisher's original violet cloth, stamped with gilt ornaments designed by Charles Shannon, spine lettered in gilt. One of 1000 copies. First Edition.
With the armorial bookplate of the first Wilde bibliographer, Christopher Sclater Millard. Wilde's play premiered before his trial and imprisonment but was not published until after his release. There were also editions of 100 large paper signed copies and 12 on Japan vellum. Mason 385.
Christopher Sclater Millard was the author of the first bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde as well as several books on Wilde. Millard's bibliography was instrumental in enabling Wilde's literary executor, Robert Baldwin Ross to establish copyright on behalf of his estate.
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