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WILDE, OSCAR. Salomé. 1893. Inscribed and with an ALS.
INSCRIBED AND WITH AN ALS WILDE, OSCAR. Salomé. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 vellum over blue boards, title and Wilde''s name stamped along spine, lightly soiled; original silver-lettered purple wrappers, faded as usual; front blanks lacking. Paris: Librairie de l''Art Indépendant / London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893
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Notes: first edition. inscribed by wilde in the month of publication to "Frances Forbes-Robertson from her friend the author. Feb 93." A two-page autographed letter signed to her which accompanied the volume is tipped-in between the front wrapper and inscribed half-title: "My Dear Frankie / I fear I shall not be in town on the fourth, as I am here with my two boys who are devoted to the sea. Constance is in Rome with her aunt, and we don''t like the children to be quite alone. This is a lovely house, belonging to Lady Mt Temple whom Norman knows, and her Rossetti drawings, and a Burne-Jones window, and many lovely things. But today the sea is rough, and there are no Dryads in the glen, and the wind cries like a Thing whose heart is broken ---- so I am consoling myself by reading Salomé, that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote-- a copy in Tyrian purple and tired silver is on its way to you. Pray accept it from me as a token of our old friendship and Believe / always yours / Oscar Wilde." 2 pages, 8vo, np, but likely also February 1893.
Wilde''s play was first published and performed in France after England''s Lord Chamberlain accused it of violating current laws against religious drama. One of 600 copies. Mason 348; Ellmann page 374. - Condition: All items are offered for sale subject to Swann Galleries'' standard terms and conditions of sale, which are published in our catalogues.
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