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., 1930. Reprint. Red cloth with blind embossed decoration of ‘The Seven Trees,’ by Charles Ricketts and lettering on the upper cover, title lettered in gilt along spine. In publisher’s matching dust jacket. Lacking portion of head of spin of jacket, book in nice bright condition.

First publishing in 1907 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.