Oscar Wilde | Salome, two copies with interesting provenance

Oscar Wilde

Two copies of Salome, comprising:

(i) Salomé. Drama en un acte... Paris: imprimée pour les souscripteurs, 1907. COPY NUMBER 29 OF 100 DELUXE COPIES ON ARCHES LAID PAPER, from an edition of 500 copies, not for sale, 4to (255 x 190 mm), 16 full-page illustrations by Beardsley, title-page printed in red and black, facsimile of a telegram from Wilde to Louys loosely inserted before half-title, brown morocco gilt by Charles Lanoe, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, original green wrappers bound in, housed in a modern grey cloth slipcase, transfer onto half-title from facsimile of telegram, boards slightly bowed, spine slightly faded

(ii) Salomé. Drama en un acte... Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant and London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, ORIGINAL PURPLE WRAPPERS, wrappers faded, upper joint partly torn

PROVENANCE:

(i) Auguste Lambiotte (1862–1920, Belgian industrialist, newspaper director, and liberal politician), bookplate; Baron Alain de Rothschild (1910–1982), bookplate, his sale, Sotheby's Paris, 24 May 2006, lot 183; (ii) Bookseller's label of Brentano's, Paris, bought by Francis King Harte (1865–1917, son of the American short story writer Bret Harte in the year of publication, ownership inscription to upper wrapper ("Francis King Harte | Paris | 1893"); Frank J. Hogan (1877–1944, prominent American lawyer and president of the American Bar Association), morocco booklabel to verso of front free endpaper; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 12 November 1954, lot 846; sale in our New York rooms, 3 July 1989, lot 955

LITERATURE:

(i) Lasner 591; (ii) Mason 348