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Zustand: New. In.

4to, 28 + [iv] pp. In original buff printed wraps. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rust to staples causing detached covers. Nicely printed. Advertisements on the last four pages and three sides of the wraps. Contains the following: 'Plans and Methods' by 'The Editor [Yeats]', 'Is the Theatre a Place of Amusement?' by George Moore, 'A Comparison between English and Irish Theatrical Audiences' by Edward Martyn, 'Maive; and Certain Irish Beliefs' by Yeats, 'The Last Feast of the Fianna' by Alice Milligan, 'The Irish Literary Theatre, 1900' by Yeats, and 'Last Year' by Augusta Gregory. Only three issues of this publication appeared (the others being no.1 in May 1899 and no.3 in April 1900).

1st edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Frontispiece accompanied by a guard sheet. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 277, [1] pages, plates: frontispiece, portraits; 26cm. Subjects: Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900. Wilde, Oscar. Genre: Biography.Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Scarce first impression of the true first edition. Illustrated with eight black and white photographic plates and facsimiles, including a tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece showing: 'The author, 1905 with his facsimile signature 'yours sincerely J. M. Stuart-Young,'; Oscar Wilde in 1894 (to face page 1); Fac-similie Letter (to face page 6-7); The Author 1895 (to face page 13; Fac-similie Letter (to face page 30 - misplaced by printer and actually facing page 38 (it was quite common for plates to be mis-bound in antiquarian books - in this case, perhaps a printer or his assistant's imperfect eyesight mistook the '0' for an '8'); "Osrac," Oscar Wilde as a Youth (to face page 45); The Author 1899 (to face page 81); Oscar Wilde in 1900 (to face page 110). ***A good original copy in forest-green cloth-covered boards with dark blue cloth-covered spine extending onto the front and rear boards. Art-nouveau gilt decorative illustrations and titles to spine and front board. Top edge of text-block gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge of text untrimmed (rough-cut). Two-inch split to bottom outer cloth of front spine, and the front hinge beginning to loosen internally. Head and tail of spine and corners of boards rubbed. Corners of boards slightly bumped. Small surface mark to bottom of front board. Offsetting to rear endpaper. Printed on thick quality paper. Thumb-print and crease to bottom of tissue guard to frontispiece, not affecting frontispiece. No foxing. No inscriptions (other than soft pencil '38' in the margin on list of illustrations for the illustration that actually faces p30 - which could easily be rubbed out, if wished). ***264 mm x 196 mm. 120 pages. ***Contents: The Pause; Roses and Lilies; To Love; Epigrams: One Love - Rent; The Lady; The Voice; Phantom Love; The Past; April, May, June; The Childless; Love and Lust; The Monk; Afterwards; Samie; Ada; Epigrams: Transfiguration - Cynicism - In Tune; The Man of the Crowd; Desire; The Aftermath; A Sea Picture; Summer, 1895; Remembrance; Satiety; A Misty Evening; The Street; To the Dead Poet; The Unloved. ***John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) was an English Uranian poet, memoirist, novelist and merchant trader. He was born John James Young in the slums of Manchester. He later spent many years in Africa, including Sierra Leone, Grand Bassa in Liberia, Conakry in French Guinea and later, Onitsha on the Niger River. In Onitsha, he worked as a successful trader. He once alleged to have had a romantic-type relationship with Oscar Wilde, claiming that he met Oscar Wilde in June 1894 as a teenager, while dining at the Savoy, and visited the Haymarket to see Oscar Wilde's play 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. John Moray Stuart-Young forged letters allegedly by Wilde to substantiate this. *** 'Osrac: The Self-Sufficient' contains his memoirs and the supposed letters of Oscar Wilde as well as in the latter part his own fin-de-siècle poems. ***John Stuart-Young wrote and published many works of literature including books of poetry, novels, descriptions of African life and autobiographical works. His poems are closely linked to fin-de-siècle and Uranian themes, being informed by decadence and colonialism. ***First impression of the true first edition, in its original art-nouveau gilt illustrated cloth-covered boards. A scarce item, of interest to collectors of rare Oscar Wilde related works of literature, the work of J. M. Stuart-Young, fin-de-siècle literature and poetry, and the titles published by the Hermes Press in Cecil Court, London. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

A rare early edition, the fifth, in contemporary sheep of this uncommon allegorical fantasy about the isles of Love and Marriage in which the reader is given a description of these islands and what to expect when venturing there, which was first published in 1742. Henry (Harry) Carey (1687-1743) was a poet and songwriter best-known today for his facetious dramas, "Carey's métier was satire and comedy; it was through Signor Carini and Lampe's burlesque opera The Dragon of Wantley (1737) and its sequel, Margery, or, A Worse Plague than the Dragon (1738), that he achieved deserved fame" (ODNB). He wrote a number of plays on love and marriage, lambasting the popular theatrical styles of the time, such as Chrononhotonthologos: the most tragical tragedy that ever was tragediz'd by any company of tragedians (1734, under the pseudonym Benjamin Bounce). Carey's end of life, however, was truly tragic as, overcome with grief after the death of his son, and facing professional difficulties, he hanged himself in 1743, leaving behind a pregnant wife and three children. Early editions of this work are rare, we could trace none currently on the market, and only three auction records: one for this edition sold in 1992, and two for the first edition sold in 1971 and 2012. ESTC T105580. Duodecimo (163 x 98 mm). Title printed in red and black, 1 p. of publisher's advertisements at end. Contemporary sheep. Neat ink ownership inscriptions to title recto and verso, 6 lines of early manuscript verses to verso of last blank, and a cut-out catalogue description for a 1772 edition. Spine ends sometime restored, light wear to extremities, front hinge cracked but firm, very occasional spotting; still a very good copy.