Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. With an introduction by Oscar Wilde.

[WILDE, Oscar.] RODD, Rennell.

Published by Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co.,, 1882

About this Item

First edition under this title, 'édition de luxe' issue. 12mo. Printed full parchment, reproducing the red wax impression of Oscar Wilde's signet ring, top edge gilt, moiré endpapers. Text printed in brown, rectos only, on thin transparent hand-made paper with deckled edges, interleaved with thin leaves of green tissue. Bookplates of Simon Nowell-Smith, Barry Humphries, and another. Some discolouration to the parchment, else a very good copy in fleece-lined cream morocco-backed solander box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, with gilt-lettered morocco label.

Seller Inventory # 6288

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. With an introduction by Oscar Wilde.
• Publisher: Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co.,
• Publication Date: 1882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition