Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley (1927)

Author: Oscar Wilde

Book ID: 68956

Price: 395.00

Salome. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Introduction by Robert Ross. London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927. Reprint. Red cloth with embossed decoration of ‘The Seven Trees,’ by Charles Ricketts and lettering on the upper cover, title lettered in gilt along spine. Small smudge mart to top right corner of upper cover,  foxing to margins of contents pages, otherwise a nice bright copy.

First publishing in 1906 the Bodley Head edition was the first to publish the full suite of sixteen Beardsley illustrations, incorporating a pictorial title-page and 15 plates in the text.

Also included is a double-page facsimile of the theatre bill for the operatic version by Richard Strauss, premiered in December 1905.

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