Wilde (Oscar) Salome: Drame en un Acte, first edition, [one of 600 copies], half-title, title vignette (repeated on colophon) by Felicien Rops, original upper wrapper bound in at end, contemporary dark purple crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, lettered in gilt, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, spine and lower cover slightly faded, [Mason 348; Nelson 1893.3], 8vo, Paris & London, 1893.

⁂ Salome was first published in France as a result of the Lord Chamberlain's refusal to allow the planned production with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. The English version with the Beardsley illustrations was published the following year. Bookplate of C.S. Ascherson and ownership inscription of Arthur H. Walsh dated Feb. 1893.