[Rarebooks] Offering: The Wilde/Beardsley SALOME, 1894, 1st, 1/500

[Michael John Thompson]

We Can Offer:

WILDE, Oscar; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illustrator. SALOME A Tragedy in One 
Act: Translated From the French of Oscar Wilde: Pictured by Aubrey 
Beardsley. London & Boston: Elkin Mathews & John Lane / Copeland & 
Day. 1894. First English and First Illustrated Edition, limited to 
500 copies. Small quarto (8 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 216 x 157 mm.). Bound 
in the publisher's full rough blue canvas boards, gilt, stamped on 
both upper & lower covers with a design by Beardsley, spine titled in 
gilt. (i-xii), pp (1) - (68); + [16] pp catalogue "List of Books in 
Belles Lettres" Dated January 1894 bound in at rear. With 10 full 
page illustrations and one final vignette, plus illustrated title 
page, all by Beardsley. Printed on smooth wove paper, all edges 
uncut. Spine panel gently tanned, and with very slight wear to the 
cloth along the rear spine hinge and at spine head. Corner tips 
slightly rolled. One plate starting to come loose but holding. A very 
good to near fine copy, complete, genuine and unrestored. A stunning 
book. Mason, A Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, 350. Lasner, A Selected 
Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 59.


Full collation: (Endpapers); (1 leaf, blank both sides); (1 leaf, 
half-title, reverse with "Of this edition 500 copies have been 
printed for England", i-ii); (1 leaf, blank, on reverse the 
frontispiece plate "The Woman in the Moon", iii-iv); (1 leaf, 
illustrated title page, reverse with "Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 
Printers to Her Majesty on verso v-vi); (1 leaf, dedication leaf "To 
My Friend Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas The Translator of my Play", 
reverse blank, vii-viii); (1 leaf, The Persons of the Play, reverse 
blank, ix-x); (1 leaf, "List of the Pictures by Aubrey Beardsley", 
reverse blank, xi-xii); pp (10 - (68), (67) with small vignette by 
Beardsley; (68) with Printer's Imprint in 3 lines with the date 
MDCCCXCIV below; 9 Full-Page black & white plates by Beardsley (in 
addition to the frontispiece) inserted throughout the text, being 
"The Peacock Skirt" at pp. 2 "The Black Cape" at pp. 8; "A Platonic 
Lament "at pp. 16; "Enter Herodias" at pp. 24; "The Eyes of Herod" at 
pp. 32; "The Stomach Dance" at pp. 40; "The Toilet of Salome" at pp. 
48; "The Dancer's Reward" at pp. 56; & "The Climax" at pp. 64. With 
the [16] pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated January, 
1894. Signatures ; [a] (6 leaves), A-H [each 4 leaves] and E 
[misprint for I] 2 leaves.

Offered at $5,500.00 US,
Trade Discount allowed.

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