The publications of Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and of Mr. John Lane, were issued simultaneously in America by Messrs. Copeland and Day, of Boston. _De Profundis_ was published in America by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York. Seven editions have been issued. _The Decay of Lying, The Portrait of Mr. W. H._, and _The Soul of Man under Socialism_, appeared in the 'Eclectic Magazine' of New York a few weeks after publication in this country. No notice is taken in this Bibliography of many unauthorised and pirated reprints, and those works which have been falsely attributed to Mr. Wilde by unscrupulous publishers are all rejected. Of the latter 'The Priest and the Acolyte,' and translations of 'Ce Qui ne Meurt pas' and the 'Satyricon' of Petronius are examples. * * * * * _Books containing Selections from the Works of Oscar Wilde._ BEST OF OSCAR WILDE, THE. (Collection of Poems and Prose Extracts). Collected by C. Herrmann. Brentano, New York, 1905 (March). EPIGRAMS AND APHORISMS. Edited by G. H. Sargent. John W. Luce & Co., Boston, U.S.A., 1905 (July). ESSAYS, CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS. Now first collected. (From _The Woman's World_). Privately printed. London, 1901. OSCARIANA. EPIGRAMS. Arthur Humphreys, 1895[1]. SEBASTIAN MELMOTH (Selection from Prose Writings; and 'The Soul of Man'). Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904 (September). [1] Only one copy bore the publisher's name. The rest were issued as 'privately printed.' The edition consisted of 25 copies only, but forged reprints are numerous. The selection of epigrams is said to have been made by Mrs. Wilde. * * * * * _Bibliographical Notes on the English Editions._ A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES. The following is the author's own description of 'the decorative designs that make lovely' this book of 'beautiful tales,' and of 'the delicate dreams that separate and herald each story':-- 'Mr. Shannon is the drawer of the dreams, and Mr. Ricketts is the subtle and fantastic decorator. Indeed, it is to Mr. Ricketts that the entire decorative design of the book is due, from the selection of the type and the placing of the ornamentation, to the completely beautiful cover that encloses the whole.... The artistic beauty of the cover resides in the delicate tracing, arabesques, and massing of many coral-red lines on a ground of white ivory, the colour effect culminating in certain high gilt notes, and being made still more pleasurable by the overlapping band of moss-green cloth that holds the book together.' THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.