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The Ballad of Reading Gaol. C.3.3. WILDE (Oscar).

£100.00

Seventh edition. 8vo. [229 x 147 x 19 mm]. [7], 31, [1] pp. Bound in quarter white cloth, with cinnamon cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, untrimmed edges, plain endleaves. (Covers are marked, spine and corners a little bumped).

London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899

Some light foxing and soiling. Contents printed on recto, verso blank. A good copy.

The first edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol was published under the pseudonym "C.3.3.", a reference to his cell in Reading Gaol: the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. The seventh was an edition of 2000 copies, and the first published with Wilde's name as suggested by Leonard Smithers in his letter to Wilde on March 15 1899: 'I think the time has now come to own the "Ballad"' (Stuart Mason 378).

Stock no. ebc9072

Seventh edition. 8vo. [229 x 147 x 19 mm]. [7], 31, [1] pp. Bound in quarter white cloth, with cinnamon cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, untrimmed edges, plain endleaves. (Covers are marked, spine and corners a little bumped).

London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899

Some light foxing and soiling. Contents printed on recto, verso blank. A good copy.

The first edition of The Ballad of Reading Gaol was published under the pseudonym "C.3.3.", a reference to his cell in Reading Gaol: the third cell on the third landing of Gallery C. The seventh was an edition of 2000 copies, and the first published with Wilde's name as suggested by Leonard Smithers in his letter to Wilde on March 15 1899: 'I think the time has now come to own the "Ballad"' (Stuart Mason 378).

Stock no. ebc9072