Mervyn Peake / Oscar Wilde Extracts from the poems of Oscar Wilde with sixteen illustrations by Mervyn Peake and a foreword by Maeve Gilmore

Peake, Mervyn; Wilde, Oscar

$35.00

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
Place Published: London
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: 1980
Illustrator: b&w illustrations
Size: 8vo

Mervyn Peake’s illustrations to accompany the poems of Oscar Wilde, the illustrations being first commissioned in 1945, but never produced in book form until the present volume; 16 full-page b&w illustrations, the poems on facing pages; foreword by Maeve Gilmore; black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; light foxing to endpapers and prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly sunned to rear, mild creasing of original celoglaze, price clipped, o.w. Very Good.

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