Poems
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1892.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 234pp. Decorative light brown cloth and endpapers designed by Charles Ricketts. Hinges with light professional tissue repairs, a tiny frayed spot at the crown, but a superior copy of a book rarely found in this condition. Copy number 76 of 220 numbered copies Signed by Wilde. The author's first collected volume of poetry.
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Oscar Wilde
birth name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
born: 10/16/1854
died: 11/30/1900
nationality: Ireland
Biography
Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th Century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore