8vo. Original printed gray-green wrappers (upper cover neatly detached, old cellotape repair to lower cover, some minor toning); cloth folding case. Provenance: Alfred Sutro (1863-1933), English playwright and translator (morocco booklabel); Frederick R. Jones (bookseller's label).

FIRST EDITION OF WILDE'S FIRST SEPARATE PUBLICATION. The Newdigate Prize, named in honor of Sir Roger Newdigate, is awarded at the Univeristy of Oxford for the Best Composition in English verse by an undergraduate student. The length of the poem may not exceed 300 lines, and dramatic composition is not allowed. Wilde based his entry on a trip he had taken to Ravenna during his travels in Greece and Italy with his professor John Pentland Mahaffy. Mason 301.