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Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.

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Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.

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NO RESERVE Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, original printed wrappers, upper cover with creasing to lower corner, some light toning to covers, otherwise excellent, [Mason 301], 8vo, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.

⁂ Wilde's first published book. "During a vacation ramble in 1877 he started for 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." (The Aesthetic Movement in England by Walter Hamilton, 1882.)

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Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.

Name: Wilde (Oscar) Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna, first edition, Oxford, Thos. Shrimpton and Son, 1878.
SKU: 134937285
Price: 800 GBP
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