Lot 87
Wilde (Oscar) Lady Windermere's Fan, first edition, presentation inscription from the author, 1893
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
Wilde (Oscar) Lady Windermere's Fan, first edition, presentation inscription from the author "author's compliments. Op. 1 of the Hibernian School. London, 92" to front free endpaper with recipient's name carefully erased, 16pp. advertisements dated September 1893 at end, light marginal toning and occasional finger-soiling, original decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon, spine darkened, spine ends chipped, light soiling and toning to covers, corners bumped, [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893.
***A presentation copy of the first of Wilde’s great comedies, possibly inscribed to George Bernard Shaw.
Wilde and Shaw were frequent correspondents and, as documented in Stanley Weintraub’s article '"The Hibernian School": Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw', exchanged several of their works in which they acknowledged their status as the first Irish playwrights in decades to find success in London by inscribing them as "Op. XX of the Hibernian School".
Description
Wilde (Oscar) Lady Windermere's Fan, first edition, presentation inscription from the author "author's compliments. Op. 1 of the Hibernian School. London, 92" to front free endpaper with recipient's name carefully erased, 16pp. advertisements dated September 1893 at end, light marginal toning and occasional finger-soiling, original decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon, spine darkened, spine ends chipped, light soiling and toning to covers, corners bumped, [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893.
***A presentation copy of the first of Wilde’s great comedies, possibly inscribed to George Bernard Shaw.
Wilde and Shaw were frequent correspondents and, as documented in Stanley Weintraub’s article '"The Hibernian School": Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw', exchanged several of their works in which they acknowledged their status as the first Irish playwrights in decades to find success in London by inscribing them as "Op. XX of the Hibernian School".