65 no less than five large-paper copies of the first edition, (189).
65 The boyish beauty that had so fascinated Basil Hallward, (190)
65 an age that was at once sordid and sensuous. (190)
66 That curiosity about life that, many years before, Lord Henry had
first stirred in him, (190, 191)
67 driving the anchorite out to herd with the wild animals.... (194)
68 the half-read book that we had been studying, (195)
68 re-fashioned anew for our pleasure in the darkness, (196)
74 the smoking-room of the Carlton,
74 Of all his friends, or so-called friends, Lord Henry Wotton was the
only one who remained loyal to him. (211)
74 rich and charming. (212)
74 the wit and beauty that make such plays charming. (212)
75 Lord Sherard, the companion of the Prince Regent. (214)
76 The hero of the dangerous novel. (215)
76 and the chapter immediately following, in which the hero describes
the curious tapestries that he had had woven for him from Gustave
Moreau's designs. (216)
CHAPTER X. (XII).
77 It was on the 7th of November, the eve of his own thirty-second
birthday. (219)
79 the most dreadful things are being said about you in London,--things
that I could hardly repeat to you." (222)
79 You used to be a friend of Lord Cawdor. (224)
79 Dorian, Dorian, your reputation is infamous. I know you and Harry are
great friends. I say nothing about that now. (226)
81 You know I have been always devoted to you." (228)
81 "My God! don't tell me that you are infamous!" (229)
81 Don't keep me waiting." (229)
CHAPTER XI. (XIII.)
82 some scarlet on the sensual lips. (231)
82 "you met me, devoted yourself to me, flattered me.... (233)
83 "Can't you see your romance in it?" said Dorian bitterly.
"My romance as you call it...." (233)
CHAPTER XIII. (XX.)
100 He seized it, and stabbed the canvas with it, ripping the thing
right up from top to bottom. (333)
* * * * *
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(a) ORIGINAL EDITIONS.
(b) UNAUTHORISED EDITIONS.
(c) TRANSLATIONS:--
(i.) Dutch.
(ii.) French.
(iii.) German.
(iv.) Italian.
(v.) Polish.
(vi.) Russian.
(vi.) Swedish.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
(a) Original Editions.
* I. i. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. July, 1890. London: Ward, Lock &
Co. Price 1/-. Size 9 by 6 in. The cover, printed in red and black, is
inscribed: This Number contains a Complete Novel,/THE PICTURE OF DORIAN
GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./ The story occupies pages 3 to 100.
* ii. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. July, 1890. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott & Co. Price 25 cents. Similar to above, but cover inscribed:
This Number contains THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR
WILDE./Complete./It contains also a title-page with THE PICTURE/OF/
DORIAN GRAY,/by OSCAR WILDE./ Philadelphia:/J.B. Lippincott Company./
* iii. FOUR COMPLETE NOVELS/BY FAMOUS AUTHORS,/FROM/
LIPPINCOTT'S/MONTHLY MAGAZINE. /With/Short Stories,/Essays (Critical and
Biographical), Poetry, and/Articles on Miscellaneous Subjects. /Ward,
Lock, Bowden & Co.,/ London: Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C./New
York: Bond Street./Melbourne: St. James's Street. Sydney: York Street./
(Half-title) THE COMPLETE NOVELS IN THIS VOLUME/ Comprise the following/
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. By Oscar Wilde./
WHAT GOLD CANNOT BUY. By Mrs. Alexander./
THE MARK OF THE BEAST. By Katharine Pearson Woods./
A MARRIAGE AT SEA. By W. Clark Russell./
Pp. 578. Containing the monthly parts (without wrappers or
advertisements), for July to October, 1890.
Covers of pale blue, brown, or drab, lettered in red on front:--FOUR
COMPLETE/STORIES/FROM LIPPINCOTT/and in gold on back in five lines; with
WARD, LOCK & CO./London, New York Melbourne/at bottom. All edges cut and
plain.
Page 409 (September) contains "A Revulsion from Realism," by Anne H.
Wharton, and 412 "The Romance of the Impossible," by Julian Hawthorne,
these being reviews of "Dorian Gray."
iv. THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. March 1891. London: Chapman & Hall. Price
2/6. This number contains on pages 480-1 "A PREFACE TO 'DORIAN GRAY,'"
consisting of 23 aphorisms and epigrams. In the novel, as it appeared in
book form in the following
July, another, the 13th, was added making 24 in all. It is as follows:
_No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything._
In the 15th paragraph the author altered his words, _his art_ to
_an art_, and in the 16th paragraph the words _form_ and _feeling_
are no longer spelt with capital initial letters. The last word in
the 23rd paragraph is changed from _inordinately_ to _intensely_.
The Preface as revised appears in all editions of the book, which
contain twenty chapters.
II. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./Ward, Lock and Co.,
London, New York and Melbourne./1891./
The edition was limited to 250 copies (signed by the author) on
large sized (8-1/2 by 7 in.) Van Gelder hand-made paper, top edges
gilt, sides uncut. With gilt lettering, and outside wrappers,
designed by Charles Ricketts. Pp. vii., 334. Price 21/-.
ii. The same on small paper (7-1/2 by 5 in.) all edges uncut. Binding
similar to the last, but with less elaborate gilt tooling. Undated.
Price 6/-.
The date of this edition is given in the _English Catalogue_ as
May, 1891, but Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., consider July 1st as the
actual day of publication, though the _Athenæum_ reviewed the book
under "Novels of the Week," on June 27. (see page 125).
iii. New Edition of the same (1894). Ward, Lock and Bowden. Undated.
Price 6/-.
This edition was prepared for publication towards the end of 1894,
but it was not issued. About a year later it was sold off to the
booksellers as a "remainder," the date of his publication being
according to the _English Catalogue_, October, 1895.
b) Unauthorised Editions.
* III. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./New York: M.J. Ivers
and Co "American Series," No. 195. Size, 7 by 4-3/4 in. Blue and white
ornamental wrappers. Dated June 22, 1890. Price 25 cents. Several
impressions have been issued.
* IV. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./New York: Geo.
Munro's Sons. "Seaside Library," No. 2143. Pocket Edition. Size 7-1/4 by
5 in. Yellow wrappers. Dated May 11, 1895, pp. 125. Price 25 cents.
Several impressions have been issued.
* ii. The same. Later editions, from September, 1898, in blue and white
ornamental wrappers. The 4th impression was issued in December, 1905.
All are printed from stereotyped plates on coarse paper. Covers all
dated May 11, 1895.
* iii. The same. "Savoy Series," No. 221. White wrappers with picture
and lettering in brown. Cover dated 1900. The second impression was
issued in January, 1905, but all reprints bear date 1900.
* V. The same. A Novel. "Arrow Library," No. 166. 12mo. Pictorial
wrappers. New York: Street & Smith. Undated (1901).
* VI. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./BY/OSCAR WILDE./Privately
Printed/1890. Size 8-3/4 by 5-3/4 in. Light blue-grey boards, label on
back. Uncut edges. This is an unauthorised reprint published in London
about 1903-4. Price from 10/6 to 21/-. Pp. 249.
VII. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY/by/OSCAR WILDE./New York: Charterhouse
Press, 1904. Size 8-3/4 by 6-1/4 in. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Top
edges gilt, sides uncut. Contains Publisher's note, Artist's preface,
and a short Biography of the Author. Facing title is a full-length
portrait of "Dorian Gray," by "Basil Hallward," which inspired the
story. Pp. xv., 334. Price $3.50c. With loose outside wrapper. The
publisher was Donald Bruce Wallace. The edition was transferred to
Brentano's of New York, in 1905. Price $3.00 net.
The English Copyright of _Dorian Gray_ was purchased from Ward,
Lock and Bowden, in January, 1905, by Charles Carrington, of Paris,
who has issued the following editions.
VIII. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY/BY/OSCAR WILDE./Paris: Charles
Carrington. Cr. 8vo, Pp. vii., 334. Blue boards, gilt lettering with
title DORIAN GREY. Price 12/6. 1901.
IX. i. Same Publisher. New Edition. Size 7-1/2 by 5-1/2 in. Top edges
gilt, sides uncut. Shot green silk boards, with water-lily design in
black on front. Pp. vii., 327. 1905. Price 10/6.
ii. The same. An edition, strictly limited to 100 copies, on hand-made
paper, from the same plates. Issued in various forms of binding. Price
15s. No. IX. is now the "Sole Authorised Edition."
Mr. Charles Carrington has in preparation a new edition which will
contain some twenty-five illustrations (seven of which will be
full-page) most of them engraved on wood. The artist is M. Paul Thiriat.
The edition, each copy of which will be numbered, Will consist of:--
X. i. Library Edition. 100 copies on English antique paper, cloth bound,
21/-.
ii. Seventy-five copies on English hand-made paper, bound in
water-coloured silk, 31/6.
iii. Fifty copies on Imperial Japanese vellum, with an extra set of the
illustrations printed on China paper, £3/3/-.
The size of the paper will be sm. 4to.
(c) Translations.
(i) Dutch.
XI. HET PORTRET VAN/DORIAN GRAY/DOOR/OSCAR WILDE/VERTAALD DOOR/ MEVROUW
LOUIS COUPERUS /EERSTE (_& Tweede_) DEEL (_fleuron_)/AMSTERDAM L.J.
VEEN./
2 vols., 8vo size, 7-7/8 by 5-1/2 in. Grey wove paper wrappers,
decorated with bands and printed in blue on front, back and ends.
Printed on wove paper with edges untrimmed.
Vol. I., pages 1-159 (Chapters I.-VIII.), Vol. II., pages 1-160
(Chapters numbered I.-XI.). Last page is dated "Den Haag, Febr., '93."
The Preface is omitted. In wrappers, price _fl_.3.25, cloth _fl_.3.90.
(ii) French
XII. i. LE PORTRAIT/DE/DORIAN GRAY./ (Traduit de l'Anglais). Paris
Albert Savine, éditeur, 12, rue des Pyramides, 12, 1895. Size 7-1/4 by
4-1/2 in. Yellow wrappers, Pp. 316. Price 3fr. 50c. (June 1895).
The translators were Eugene Tardieu and Georges Maurevert.
ii. The same. Second Edition. July 1895.
XIII. i. The same. Type re-set. Pp. vii., 325. Price 3fr. 50c. Yellow
wrappers. Paris: P.V. Stock, Editeur, 27, rue de Richelieu. 1904.
ii. The same. Second Edition. 1904.
iii. The same. Third Edition. 1904 (July).
(iii) German.
* XIV. DORIAN GRAY./Von/OSCAR WILDE./Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und
mit einem Vorwort verschehen von Johannes Gaulke. Leipzig: Verlag von
Max Spohr. Not dated (September 1901). Size 8-1/2 by 5-3/4 in. Pale
green wrappers, uncut edges. Pp. 203. Price 3 marks; Bound 4 marks.
XV. i. OSCAR WILDE/DAS BILDNIS DORIAN GRAYS./Deutsch von Felix Paul
Greve. Minden in Westf: J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag. No date (1902). Size 7-3/4
by 5 in. Ribbed grey wrappers. Uncut edges. Pp. vi., 367. Price 3 marks
50 pf. Bound 4 marks 50 pf.
ii. The same. New Edition. DORIAN GRAYS BILDNIS, etc. (1903).
iii. The same (1904).
This edition has been reprinted several times.
XVI. DAS BILDNIS DER DORIAN GRAY.
This is Volume II. of an edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde, in six
volumes, published by the Wiener Verlag; (Vienna,) 1906, under the
general title of "Samtliche werke in Deutsche Sprache."
Grey paper wrappers, uncut edges, 2 marks. Edition de luxe, on hand-made
paper, limited to 100 copies, bound in crimson roan, top edges crimson,
sides uncut, 6 marks.
(iv) Italian.
XVII. i. IL RITRATTO DI DORIAN GRAY, ROMANZO DI OSCAR WILDE. Appeared in
_Varietas_, Milan, June, 1905, to May, 1906 (Nos. 14-25). Complete
version, without preface.
ii. DORIANO GRAY DIPINTO. VERSIONE DALL' INGLESE CON PREFAZIONE DI B.
CHIARA. NAPOLI LIBRERIA EDITRICE BIDERI S. PIETRO A MAJELLA 17.
16mo, Biblioteca Varia Bideri, No. 31. Price 2 lire.
iii. IL RITRATTO DI DORIANO GRAY. Romanzo. Publicato par la Ditta Remo
Sandron. Palermo, 1907.
16mo. Pp. 262. Price 1 lira.
(v) Polish.
XVIII. OSCAR WILDE PORTRET DORIANA GRAY 'A Przeklad M. Kreczowska.
Wydanie "Przeglada Tygodniowy." Warszawa. 1906.
8vo. Pp. 327. Cena 1 rb.
(vi) Russian.
XIX. i. PORTRET DORIANA GREYA./ perevod S.Z. Izdanie W.M.
Sablina./Moskwa, 1905. 1 r. 50 c.
ii. New Edition, 1907
* XX. PORTRET DORIANA GREYA/ perevod A. Mintzlowoi Srysoonkami M.
Durnowa/Knigoizdatelstwo "Griff"/Moskwa 1906. 3 roub.
(vii) Swedish.
XXI. i. DORIAN GRAYS PORTRATT/ Af/OSCAR WILDE./Ofversattning fran
Engelskan. af N. Selander. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1905.
Size 7-1/4 by 4-3/4 in. White wrappers (bearing etching of Wilde, by
Kelly). Pp. 307. Price 3kr.
ii. The same. Second Edition. 1905.
iii. The same. Third Edition, 1906.
NOTE.--Editions marked with an asterisk(*) contain the thirteen chapters
as originally contributed to _Lippincott's Monthly Magazine_.