Miscellanies eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 317 pages of information about Miscellanies.

Miscellanies eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 317 pages of information about Miscellanies.

Part iii. is a chronological list of all contributions (so far as at present known) to magazines, periodicals, etc., the date given being that of the first publication only.  Those marked with an asterisk (*) were published anonymously.  Many of the poems have been included in anthologies of modern verse, but no attempt has been made to give particulars of such reprints in this Bibliography.

I.—­AUTHORISED ENGLISH EDITIONS

NEWDIGATE prize poem.  Ravenna.  Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878.  By Oscar Wilde, Magdalen College.  Oxford:  Thos.  Shrimpton and Son, 1878.

Poems. London:  David Bogue, 1881 (June 30).

Second and Third Editions, 1881.

Fourth and Fifth Editions [Revised], 1882.

220 copies (200 for sale) of the Fifth Edition, with a new title-page and cover designed by Charles Ricketts.  London:  Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1892 (May 26).

The happy Prince and other tales. (’The Happy Prince,’ ’The Nightingale and the Rose,’ ‘The Selfish Giant,’ ‘The Devoted Friend,’ ’The Remarkable Rocket.’) Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood.  London:  David Nutt, 1888 (May).

Also 75 copies (65 for sale) on Large Paper, with the plates in two states.

Second Edition, January 1889.

Third Edition, February 1902.

Fourth Impression, September 1905.

Fifth Impression, February 1907.

Intentions. (’The Decay of Lying,’ ‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison,’ ’The
Critic as Artist,’ ‘The Truth of Masks.’) London:  James R. Osgood,
McIlvaine and Co., 1891 (May).  New Edition, 1894.

Edition for Continental circulation only.  The English Library, No. 54. 
Leipzig:  Heinemann and Balestier, 1891.  Frequently reprinted.

The picture of Dorian Gray.  London:  Ward, Lock and Co. [1891 (July 1).]

Also 250 copies on Large Paper.  Dated 1891.

[Note.—­July 1 is the official date of publication, but presentation copies signed by the author and dated May 1891 are known.]

New Edition [1894 (October 1).] London:  Ward, Lock and Bowden.

Reprinted.  Paris:  Charles Carrington, 1901, 1905, 1908 (January).

Edition for Continental circulation only.  Leipzig:  Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4049. 1908 (July).

Lord Arthur Savile’s crime and other stories. (’Lord Arthur Savile’s
Crime,’ ‘The Sphinx Without a Secret,’ ‘The Canterville Ghost,’ ’The
Model Millionaire.’) London:  James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891
(July).

A house of pomegranates. (’The Young King,’ ’The Birthday of the Infanta,’ ‘The Fisherman and His Soul,’ ‘The Star Child.’) With Designs and Decorations by Charles Ricketts and C. H. Shannon.  London:  James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891 (November).

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