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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tall 8vo (8 1/2 by 4 1/4 inches); 72 pages; original gray heavy paper boards, printed paper title label on front cover, and another on the spine (this one a little chipped on one edge); extremities a trifle rubbed; a very nice copy of this rare and fragile volume. Second edition, a reprint of the privately printed edition of 1894, this with the Stuart Mason (Christopher Millard ) preface (termed Protest) making it clear that Oscar Wilde did not write this book. With the theatrical themed bookplate of the silent movie star, stage actor and director Harrison K. Ford (1884-1957). The tale of the tragic love of a young priest and his fourteen year old acolyte ending in their suicides. This work figured strongly and negatively in the Queensberryy/Wilde trial. References: d'Arch Smith's Love in Earnest, pp 56-59; the Dulau 1928 Wilde Catalogue, #246; Mason, Biblio. of Oscar Wilde, page14, and #655. Note: Timothy d'Arch Smith suggests that this book was known to Ronald Firbank and undoubtedly influenced his last novel - Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli.