Sale 2519 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, October 10, 2019

519 c   WILDE, OSCAR; and CHARLES RICKETTS. The Sphinx. 10 illustrations by Ricketts, including 8 full-page plates printed in red; initials and guide words printed in green. 4to, original gilt-pictorial vellum after Ricketts; scattered foxing. Signature of A. E. Crawley, dated 1896; bookplate of Curt and Emma von Faber du Faur. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head, 1894 [4,000/6,000] first edition . one of 200 copies printed for england . “No illustrated book was ever more thoroughly planned . . .The result is a perfect whole, as harmonious as it is dazzling”—Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 262; Mson 361.