Description

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 1,000 NUMBERED COPIES.

The copy is enriched:

• from a famous original photograph of Oscar Wilde by W. & D. Downe, taken on 28 May 1889 and published in 1891 (carbon print: 139 mm x 93 mm).
• d'a photographic portrait of Evelyn Millard... by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published as a postcard by the Rotary Photographic Co Ltd around 1900 (bromide postcard print: 136 mm x 85 mm). Evelyn Millard played Cecily Cardew at the premiere of the play on February 14, 1895.
• d'a photographic portrait of Miss Irene Vanbrugh. by Lallie Charles published as a postcard by the Rotary Photographic Co Ltd around 1900 (silver postcard print: 136 mm x 85 mm). Irene Vanbrugh played Gwendolen Fairfax at the premiere.
• several press clippings from the period pasted on the guards or in the book, relating to the revival of the play at the St James Theatre in December 1909.

Nice copy in its well preserved publisher's cardboard.