THE BALLAD OF
READING GAOL
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METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
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_This Volume was First _August 17th_, _1911_
Published_
_Second Edition_ _August_ _1911_
_Third Edition_ _September_ _1911_
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‘_The Ballad of Reading Goal_’ _was first published by Leonard Smithers_,
_February 13th_, _1898_. _Second Edition_, _February_, _1898_. _Third
Edition_, _March 1898_. _Fourth Edition_, _March 1898_. _Fifth
Edition_, _March 1898_. _Sixth Edition_, _1898_. _Seventh Edition_,
_1899_. _Eighth and Cheaper Edition_ (_1s. net_). _Methuen & Co._,
_Ltd._, _August 1910_. _Ninth Edition_, _September 1910_. ‘_The Ballad
of Reading Goal_’ _was published anonymously under the signature of C. 3.
3_. _The author’s name first appeared on the title-page of the Seventh
Edition_. _It was included in the Collected Edition of the author’s
Poems published by Messrs. Methuen in 1908 and 1909_.
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_Wilde’s Poems were first published in volume form in 1881_, _and were
reprinted four times before the end of 1882_. _A new edition with
additional poems_, _including Ravenna_, _The Sphinx_, _and The Ballad of
Reading Gaol_, _was first published_ (_limited issues on hand-made paper
and Japanese vellum_) _by Methuen & Co. in March 1908_. _A further
edition_ (_making the seventh_) _with some omissions from the issue of
1908_, _but including two new poems_, _was published in September 1909_.
_Eighth Edition_, _November 1909_. _Ninth Edition_, _December 1909_.