Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Philosophy
Oscar Wilde, Art and Morality: A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Picture of Dorian Gray
ii. The same on small paper (7-1/2 by 5 in.) all edges uncut. Binding
similar to the last, but with less elaborate gilt tooling. Undated.
Price 6/-.
The date of this edition is given in the _English Catalogue_ as
May, 1891, but Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., consider July 1st as the
actual day of publication, though the _Athenæum_ reviewed the book
under "Novels of the Week," on June 27. (see page 125).
iii. New Edition of the same (1894). Ward, Lock and Bowden. Undated.
Price 6/-.
This edition was prepared for publication towards the end of 1894,
but it was not issued. About a year later it was sold off to the
booksellers as a "remainder," the date of his publication being
according to the _English Catalogue_, October, 1895.
b) Unauthorised Editions.
* III. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./New York: M.J. Ivers
and Co "American Series," No. 195. Size, 7 by 4-3/4 in. Blue and white
ornamental wrappers. Dated June 22, 1890. Price 25 cents. Several
impressions have been issued.
* IV. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./New York: Geo.
Munro's Sons. "Seaside Library," No. 2143. Pocket Edition. Size 7-1/4 by
5 in. Yellow wrappers. Dated May 11, 1895, pp. 125. Price 25 cents.
Several impressions have been issued.
* ii. The same. Later editions, from September, 1898, in blue and white
ornamental wrappers. The 4th impression was issued in December, 1905.
All are printed from stereotyped plates on coarse paper. Covers all
dated May 11, 1895.
* iii. The same. "Savoy Series," No. 221. White wrappers with picture
and lettering in brown. Cover dated 1900. The second impression was
issued in January, 1905, but all reprints bear date 1900.
* V. The same. A Novel. "Arrow Library," No. 166. 12mo. Pictorial
wrappers. New York: Street & Smith. Undated (1901).
* VI. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./BY/OSCAR WILDE./Privately
Printed/1890. Size 8-3/4 by 5-3/4 in. Light blue-grey boards, label on
back. Uncut edges. This is an unauthorised reprint published in London
about 1903-4. Price from 10/6 to 21/-. Pp. 249.
VII. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY/by/OSCAR WILDE./New York: Charterhouse
Press, 1904. Size 8-3/4 by 6-1/4 in. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Top
edges gilt, sides uncut. Contains Publisher's note, Artist's preface,
and a short Biography of the Author. Facing title is a full-length
portrait of "Dorian Gray," by "Basil Hallward," which inspired the
story. Pp. xv., 334. Price $3.50c. With loose outside wrapper. The
publisher was Donald Bruce Wallace. The edition was transferred to
Brentano's of New York, in 1905. Price $3.00 net.
The English Copyright of _Dorian Gray_ was purchased from Ward,
Lock and Bowden, in January, 1905, by Charles Carrington, of Paris,
who has issued the following editions.
VIII. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY/BY/OSCAR WILDE./Paris: Charles
Carrington. Cr. 8vo, Pp. vii., 334. Blue boards, gilt lettering with
title DORIAN GREY. Price 12/6. 1901.
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