Author: WILDE. OSCAR. ALASTAIR. (PSEUDONYM; HANS HENNING VOIGHT), ILLUSTRATES.
Title: SALOME. Drame en un acte. Dessins de Alastair.
Description: Les Editions G. Cres & Co. Paris. 1923. French text. Reprint of the original Alastair illustrated version which was published as a limited edition in 1922. Small 4to. (7.6 x 5.8 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 9 colour plates by Alastair. Finely bound, by Bumpus, in contemporary half plum calf. Spine with 5 raised bands. Compartments double ruled, fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Salmon pink cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Light spotting to the blank endpapers otherwise a lovely bright copy in a fine early twentieth century leather binding with just a small are of abrasion to the top raised band on the spine. This edition contains a bibliography of the various editions of Salome published prior to this one.

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