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Heading:
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Title: Ravenna
Place Published: Oxford
Publisher:Thos. Shrimpton and Son
Date Published: 1878
Description:

16 pp. (8vo) original green printed wrappers. First Edition.

The author's first book. Wilde's poem was the Newdigate Prize winner for 1878. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 [Wilde] started from Greece, [and] visiting Ravenna by chance on the way, he obtained material for a poem on that ancient city, and singularly enough, 'Ravenna' was afterwards given out as the topic for the Newdigate competition." (Hamilton, The Aesthetic Movement in England, quoted in Mason.) Mason 301.

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Toning and light wear to wrappers with some chipping at edges; very good

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Wilde's first published book Ravenna

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