[BINDING -- LEONARD MOUNTENEY]. WILDE, Oscar. Salome. Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator. L: Limited Editions Club, 1938. -- WILDE. Salome. André Derain, illustrator. Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1938. LIMITED EDITIONS, one SIGNED BY DERAIN.
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[BINDING -- LEONARD MOUNTENEY]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salome. Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator. London: for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1938. -- WILDE. Salome. André Derain, illustrator. Paris: for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1938.
2 works bound in one volume, 4to. Numerous illustrations after Aubrey Beardsley and André Derain. Half crushed lavender levant morocco, with cover corners square, covers with red morocco onlay rule and gilt tooling along spine, sides with central green floral onlay gilt, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands gilt-lettered in 3, the remaining two in varying sizes with red, pink and green morocco floral onlays gilt, edges gilt, top edge gauffered with hand-painted floral design, lavender watered silk doublures and endleaves, STAMP-SIGNED BY LEONARD MOUNTENEY.
LIMITED EDITIONS, each number 234 of 1,500 copies, one SIGNED BY DERAIN.
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