Salome: A Tragedy in One Act

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head and John Lane Company, 1907.
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22cm x 17.5cm. xx, [4], 66 pages, [2] advertisements, 14 plates outside the text, with the illustrated title and cover illustration plate within the pagination. Original green gilt stamped cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, no jacket.

Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, with Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. The first edition to include all 16 of Beardsley’s illustrations including the unadulterated hermaphroditic title page illustration, as well as the introduction by Robert Ross, and the two leaves with the Cast of the Performance of Salome, as presented in England for the first time by the New Stage Club on May 10 and 13, 1905, and the preoduction of the playbill of the first production of the Operatic Version by Richard Strauss at the Konigliches Operahaus, Dresdem on December 9, 1905. Identical to MASON 355 except without the Wm. Clowes & Sons imprint at the foot of the last page of text.

Minor chipping to spine head and tail. Very minor bumping to tail fore-edge corner of boards. Minor tanning to endpapers and plates. Very Good Condition.

AU$1,000.00

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