Picture of Dorian Gray

WILDE, Oscar

Published by Petersburg Press, London, 1968

About this Item

The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press, 1968. Full Description: WILDE, Oscar. DINE, Jim, [artist]. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Petersburg Press, [1968]. Limited edition signed and numbered by the artist, Jim Dine on the limitation page in green ink. This being number 11 of 200 in Edition B. Folio (17 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches; 440 x 310 mm). Complete with frontispiece and twelve lithographs in color, with a set of an additional 4 loose lithographs issued in a portfolio, each annotated "Edition B" on the reverse and numbered 11/200 and signed by the artist in pencil on the front lower margin. Original full green velvet boards. Front board lettered in silver. Pictorial patterned endpapers. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. With additional black cloth portfolio. Cloth portfolio with a small split at top of hinge. A fine copy. "A working script for the stage from the novel by Oscar Wilde with original images and notes on the text by Jim Dine" (From the title page). "The original colour lithographs, etchings and text pages comprising this book were prepared on zinc and aluminum plates by the artist at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, ini February, 1968; and subsequently printed on Velin Arches at the Atelier Desjobert and Atelier Leblanc in Paris." (Colophon) HBS 69253. $4,500.

Seller Inventory # 69253

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Picture of Dorian Gray
• Publisher: Petersburg Press, London
• Publication Date: 1968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: DINE, Jim
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Signed Limited Edition
  • Autographs