De Profundis being the first complete and accurate version of ‘Epistola: in Carcere et Vinculis’ the last prose work in English of Oscar Wilde with an introduction by Vyvyan Holland

Authoritative text of Wilde’s De Profundis, written by Wilde during his imprisoment in Reading Gaol, in the form of a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas; Vyvyan Holland’s introduction discusses the history of the text, the initial prevention of its publication, and the final appearance of it in unexpurgated form; bookshop label to front pastedown, foxing to prelims and endpapers, occasional mild foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, heavy browning and loss (2x1cm) to spine, dampstain to foot of spine, price clipped.