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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Very Good Copy of this Book original pictorial cloth in blue with gold gilt design to front covers and spine,teg,owner's previous bookplate has been partially removed from the ffep.Well illustrated by F.D. Bedford,cold frontis and tp.8vo (xxvi) 38 9pp +1 page of adverts.undated circa 1920's.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. F D Bedford (illustrator). Illustration on page 313 marked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Bedford, F. D. (illustrator). Rubbing to spine top and tail, book edges browned, tanning and light foxing to eps, gift inscription on ffep dated 1910 ; B&W ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxvi, 390 pages; 19 stories, colour frontispiece with tissue guard, grey cloth with gold lettering and figures, blue rose tendril border, upper edge gilt.

Several tiny rubbings on edges. book.

First edition of this selection of Wilde's literary criticism. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription. Wildeās ātheme is not, as is often supposed, artās divorce from life, but its inescapable arraignment by experience. His creative works almost always end in unmasking. The hand that adjusts the green carnation suddenly shakes an admonitory finger. While the ultimate virtue in Wildeās essays is in make-believe, the denouement of his dramas and narratives is that masks have to go. We must acknowledge what we are. Wilde at least was keen to do so. Though he offered himself as the apostle of pleasure, his created world contains much painā (Ellmann, xvi). Wilde's A Critic in Pall Mall contains extracts from his critical works on Keats, Shakespeare, Balzac, Aristotle, early Christian art in Ireland, Y.B. Years, and William Morris among a wide variety of other subjects.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Uncommon pair of Lucas' companion volumes of stories of old: OLD FASHIONED TALES (1905) and its follow-up FORGOTTEN TALES OF LONG AGO (1906), both uniform in design and format with elaborate decorated covers by F.D. Bedford, who also illustrated both. The first volume is navy blue and gilt on grey linen, the second yellow, orange, gold and black on cream cloth, both unusually well preserved. The second volume has a short tear in cloth head of spine, but the rare dustjacket, albeit worn and with careful, archival taped repairs on its verso. The separated pieces of the dustjacket for the first volume are laid-in. Same library bookplate on pastedown in both.