OSCAR WILDE, "The Sphinx," a poem, and four plays; 1883-1895. Autograph ; or typed, with autograph corrections. Presented by Robert Boss, Esq., literary executor of Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: "The Sphinx," a poem, and drafts of plays: 1883-1895.: Autogr.
"THE SPHINX," a poem, written at Paris in 1883 (Sherard, Life of Oscar Wilde, 1906, p. 238) and published in 1894, with decorations by Charles Ricketts. Final autograph draft, with designs in pencil for the decorations by Ricketts on the verso of ff. 1-5, 7-9. At the end (f. 10) are designs for the ...