Chronicle_, July 2, 1890. _Scots Observer_, July 12, August 2, 16, 1890.
POEMS. David Bogue, 1881 (July). 5th Edition, 1882. Elkin Mathews &
John Lane, 1892 (May 26).
POEMS IN PROSE. _Fortnightly Review_, July, 1894.
Πόντος Ἀτρύγετος. _Irish Monthly_, December, 1877.
PORTIA. _World_, January 14, 1880.
PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H., THE. _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_, July,
1889[6].
PREFACE TO 'DORIAN GRAY,' A. _Fortnightly Review_, March, 1891.
PUPPETS AND ACTORS. _Daily Telegraph_, February?, 1892[7].
QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA (_Charles I., act iii._). _World_, July 16, 1879.
RAVENNA. T. Shrimpton & Son, Oxford, 1878 (June).
REMARKABLE ROCKET, THE. In 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales.'
REQUIESCAT. _Dublin Verses_, by Members of Trinity College. Elkin
Mathews, 1895.
RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM, THE. Privately printed. America, 1905[8].
ROSE OF LOVE AND WITH A ROSE'S THORNS. See Δηξίθυμον Ἔρωτος Ἄνθος.
ROSES AND RUE. _Midsummer Dreams_, Summer Number of _Society_, July,
1885.
SALOMÉ (French Edition.) Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, Paris, 1893
(February 22).
SALOME (English Edition). Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894 (February 9).
SALVE SATURNIA TELLUS. _Irish Monthly_, June, 1877.
SELFISH GIANT, THE. In 'The Happy Prince and Other Tales.'
SEN ARTYSTY; OR, THE ARTIST'S DREAM. See 'Artist's Dream, The.'
SHAKESPEARE AND STAGE COSTUME. _Nineteenth Century_, May, 1885. In
'Intentions.'
SOME CRUELTIES OF PRISON LIFE. See 'Case of Warder Martin, The,' and
'Children in Prison.'
SOME LITERARY NOTES. _Woman's World_, January to June, 1889.
RELATION OF DRESS TO ART, THE. _Pall Mall Gazette_, February 28, 1885.
SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM, THE. _Fortnightly Review_, February,
1891[9].
SPHINX, THE. Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894 (September 29).
SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET, THE. See 'Lady Alroy.'
STAR-CHILD, THE. In 'A House of Pomegranates.'
TEACHER OF WISDOM, THE. In 'Poems in Prose.'
THEOCRITUS. _Ballades and Rondeaus_. Selected by Gleeson White. Walter
Scott Publishing Co., 1889 (June 30)[10].
Θρηνῳδία. _Kottabos_, Michaelmas Term, 1876.
TO MILTON. _Poets and Poetry of the Century_, Edited by A. H. Miles,
Vol. viii, 1891, 1898.
TO MY WIFE: WITH A COPY OF MY POEMS. _Book-Song_, Elliot Stock, 1893.
TO SARAH BERNHARDT. _World_, June 11, 1879.
TOMB OF KEATS, THE. _Irish Monthly_, July, 1877.
TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM, THE. See 'Critic as Artist, The,'
and 'On Criticism.'
TRUE KNOWLEDGE, THE. _Irish Monthly_, September, 1876[11].
TRUTH OF MASKS, THE. See 'Shakespeare and Stage Costume.'
UNDER THE BALCONY. _Shaksperean Show-Book_ (May 29, 1884). See 'Oh!
Beautiful Star!'
UN AMANT DE NOS JOURS. _Court and Society Review_, December 13, 1887.
See 'New Remorse, The.'
VERA, OR THE NIHILISTS. Privately printed for the Author; America, 1882.
VITA NUOVA. See Πόντος Ἀτρύγετος.
WASTED DAYS (From a Picture Painted by Miss V. T.). _Kottabos_,
Michaelmas Term, 1877.
WHISTLER, CORRESPONDENCE WITH. _World_, November 14, 1883; February 25,
1885; November 24, 1886. _Truth_, January 9, 1890.
WHISTLER'S LECTURES REVIEWED. See 'Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock 'and
'Relation of Dress to Art, The.'
WITH A COPY OF 'A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.' _Book-Song_, Elliot Stock,
1893.
WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, A. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1894 (October 9).
WOMAN'S WORLD, THE. Edited by Oscar Wilde, 1887-9. Cassell & Co.
YOUNG KING, THE. Illustrations by Bernard Partridge. _Lady's
Pictorial_, Christmas Number, 1888. In 'A House of Pomegranates.'
[1] The title-page reads:--The Duchess of Padua A Tragedy of the XVI
Century by Oscar Wilde Author of "Vera," etc. Written in Paris in the
XIX Century. Privately printed as Manuscript. March 15, 1883 A. D.
The cover is inscribed 'Op. II.' Twenty copies were printed, of which
one only is known to exist in England, the property of Mr. Robert Ross.
It is in grey paper wrappers, 8vo., pp. 122. The play was acted in
America in 1883 by the late Lawrence Barrett, shortly before his death.
It is sometimes known as _Guido Ferranti_.
[2] The original publication of 'The Harlot's House' has not yet been
traced. The approximate date is known by a parody on the poem, called
'The Public House, 'which appeared in _The Sporting Times_ of June 13,
1885. In 1904 a privately printed edition, on folio paper, with five
illustrations by Althea Gyles, was issued by 'The Mathurin Press,'
London. In 1905 another edition was privately printed in London, pp. 8,
wrappers.
[3] See _Notes and Queries_, Series ix., vol. xii., page 85.
[4] Continental Edition issued by Messrs. Heinemann and Balestier in
'The English Library,' No. 54. 1891.
[5] See _Sonnets of this Century_. Edited by William Sharp. Walter
Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (March 22).
[6] Early in 1894, Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane announced as
being in preparation, 'The incomparable and ingenious history of Mr. W.
H., being the true secret of Shakespear's sonnets, now for the first
time here fully set forth. With initial letters and cover design by
Charles Ricketts.' On the evening of his arrest, April 5, 1895, the
publishers returned the MS. to Mr. Wilde's house, and it is said to
have been stolen from there a few hours later.
[7] See _Saturday Review_, July 2, 1892.
[8] The authenticity of this work is not vouched for.
[9] It was the author's wish that 'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
should be known as 'The Soul of Man,' and by this title he himself
refers to it in _De Profundis_. A privately printed edition was
published by Mr. Arthur L. Humphreys under this title in 1895, and
again in 1904 in 'Sebastian Melmoth.' It appeared also in _Wilshire's
Magazine_, Toronto, Canada, for June, 1902; and, under its original
title, in a pirated edition issued in London, 1904; and in a beautiful
edition published by Mr. Thos. B. Mosher, of Portland, Maine, U.S.A.,
April, 1905.
[10] See _Literature_, December 8, 1900.
[11] Re-printed in _Dublin Verses_, 1895; and _The Tablet_, December 8,
1900.
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NOTE.
In the foregoing list the following particulars are given:--
(1) Titles of books with name of publisher and date of publication of
each edition.
(2) Contributions to magazines and periodicals whether re-printed in
book-form later or not.
(3) Poems which have been re-printed in collections of verse of later
date than Bogue's edition of the 'Poems,' 1881. These will be found
under their respective titles, but when a poem has been included in
more than one such collection the reference is given, as a rule, to the
book of earliest date.
The publications of Messrs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and of Mr.
John Lane, were issued simultaneously in America by Messrs. Copeland
and Day, of Boston. _De Profundis_ was published in America by Messrs.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York. Seven editions have been issued. _The
Decay of Lying, The Portrait of Mr. W. H._, and _The Soul of Man under
Socialism_, appeared in the 'Eclectic Magazine' of New York a few weeks
after publication in this country.
No notice is taken in this Bibliography of many unauthorised and
pirated reprints, and those works which have been falsely attributed to
Mr. Wilde by unscrupulous publishers are all rejected. Of the latter
'The Priest and the Acolyte,' and translations of 'Ce Qui ne Meurt pas'
and the 'Satyricon' of Petronius are examples.
* * * * *
_Books containing Selections from the Works of Oscar Wilde._
BEST OF OSCAR WILDE, THE. (Collection of Poems and Prose Extracts).
Collected by C. Herrmann. Brentano, New York, 1905 (March).
EPIGRAMS AND APHORISMS. Edited by G. H. Sargent. John W. Luce & Co.,
Boston, U.S.A., 1905 (July).
ESSAYS, CRITICISMS AND REVIEWS. Now first collected. (From _The Woman's
World_). Privately printed. London, 1901.
OSCARIANA. EPIGRAMS. Arthur Humphreys, 1895[1].
SEBASTIAN MELMOTH (Selection from Prose Writings; and 'The Soul of
Man'). Arthur L. Humphreys, 1904 (September).
[1] Only one copy bore the publisher's name. The rest were issued as
'privately printed.' The edition consisted of 25 copies only, but
forged reprints are numerous. The selection of epigrams is said to have
been made by Mrs. Wilde.
* * * * *
_Bibliographical Notes on the English Editions._
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.
The following is the author's own description of 'the decorative
designs that make lovely' this book of 'beautiful tales,' and of 'the
delicate dreams that separate and herald each story':--
'Mr. Shannon is the drawer of the dreams, and Mr. Ricketts is the
subtle and fantastic decorator. Indeed, it is to Mr. Ricketts that
the entire decorative design of the book is due, from the selection
of the type and the placing of the ornamentation, to the completely
beautiful cover that encloses the whole.... The artistic beauty of
the cover resides in the delicate tracing, arabesques, and massing of
many coral-red lines on a ground of white ivory, the colour effect
culminating in certain high gilt notes, and being made still more
pleasurable by the overlapping band of moss-green cloth that holds the
book together.'
THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL.
1st edition, 8vo, pp. 31, 800 copies on hand-made paper, and 30 on
Japan vellum, February, 1898. Before the 2nd edition was published, in
March, the author made several alterations in the text. The 3rd edition
was 99 copies only, each signed by the author; bound in purple cloth
sides, 4to. Editions 4, 5, and 6 (1898) are similar to the 2nd edition
and the number of each edition is printed on the back of title-page.
The 7th edition (1899) bears the author's name on the title-page. It is
the last of Smithers' editions on hand-made paper. All his subsequent
editions are printed in a new type from stereotyped plates, on thick
wove paper, and bear no number to distinguish the edition. They are all
dated 1899.
DE PROFUNDIS.
Of the 1st edition 200 copies were printed on hand-made paper at 21/-
and 50 on Japan vellum at 42/-. Of the ordinary 5/- edition four
impressions were issued within a month of publication.
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES.
Of the 1st edition 75 copies (65 for sale) were printed on large paper
with the plates in two states. Of the small paper copies the 1st
edition was published at 5/-, the 2nd and 3rd at 3/6 each.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.
Each edition consists of 1000 copies, 7/6 net, and 100 on large paper,
21/- net. Twelve copies of each, signed by the author, were issued on
Japan vellum. Of this edition No. 4 of each play is in the British
Museum.
INTENTIONS.
1st edition, 1891, 7/6; new edition, 1894, 3/6.
LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN AND A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE.
With a specially designed binding to each volume by Charles Shannon.
500 copies, sm. 4to, 7/6 net, and 50 copies large paper, 15/- net.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.
Of the 1st edition 250 copies on hand-made paper, signed by the author,
were issued at 21/-, dated 1891. The small paper editions are not
dated. The 2nd (1894) can be distinguished from the 1st (1891) by the
publisher's name, Ward, Lock and Bowden, Limited, on the title-page.
The published price of each was 6/-.
POEMS.
Bogue's 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions are dated 1881, pp. 236. The 4th and
5th editions (1882) have several alterations made by the author in
the text, and contain 234 pages only. The edition published by Elkin
Mathews and John Lane in 1892 consisted of 220 copies (200 for sale),
on hand-made paper, with cover design by Charles Ricketts, price 15/-.
The text is a reprint of Bogue's 1882 editions.
RAVENNA.
Forged imitations of Messrs. Shrimpton and Son's edition are common.
They can be distinguished from the originals by the omission of the
Arras of Oxford University on cover and title-page.
SALOMÉ.
The edition in French, limited to 600 copies (500 for sale), printed
in Paris, was published by the Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, Paris,
and Messrs. Matthews and Lane, London; pp. 84, purple wrappers lettered
in silver, 5/- net. The English edition was translated by Lord Alfred
Douglas and pictured by Aubrey Beardsley with 10 illustrations,
title-page, tail-piece, and cover design. 500 copies, small 4to, 15/-
net; 100 copies large paper, 30/- net.
THE SPHINX.
Decorated throughout in line and colour and bound in a design by
Charles Ricketts. 250 copies at £2/2/- net, and 25 on large paper at
£5/5/- net.
* * * * *
Translations of many of Oscar Wilde's works have appeared in French,
German, Polish, Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and other foreign
languages. Full particulars of all editions will be included in 'A
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde' by Walter Ledger and Stuart Mason, now in
preparation.
IN PREPARATION.
The
Sonnets of Oscar Wilde
Now First Collected.
EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY
STUART MASON.
Views and Reviews
The Uncollected Prose Writings and
Letters of Oscar Wilde.
EDITED BY
STUART MASON.
The
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde
BY
Walter Ledger and Stuart Mason.