Author: OSCAR WILDE (ILLUSTRATED BY CECIL BEATON)
Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
Description: London, The Folio Society. 1960. Hardcover , 25cm. Ill.: Cecil Beaton. Green silk binding. First edition thus. 4to. A vg copy with foxing scattered throughout, green moiree silk binding in the original pink slipcase, slipcase has a split at the corner join. Illustrated pink and gray pastedowns and endpapers, full-colour frontispiece, 70 pp. with 18 sketches and five full-colour full-page illustrations throughout text. First Folio Society edition, the play premiered in 1895. Both the book and the slipcase are without inscriptions, gilt to book binding remains bright. Very Good/None Issued.

Keywords: Play Theatre Wilde Cecil Beaton