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WILDE (OSCAR) POEMS, FIFTH EDITION, LONDON: DAVID

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WILDE (Oscar) Poems, fifth edition, London: David Bogue 1882, 8vo, teg others untrimmed, vellum with gilt prunus blossom motifs after Charles Ricketts *One of 250 copies only, issued under Bogue's imprint. Bogue went bankrupt in August that year and the unsold copies went to Chatto and Windus with the rest of his stock. According to Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Wilde, in fact only 20 or 30 copies of this fifth edition were published under Bogue's imprint

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Pictures and Books
3:00 AM PT - Jul 10th, 2008

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Clifton House
Cambridge, CBI 7EA
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