Wilde (Oscar) and Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator) Salome A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen Drawings By Aubrey Beardsley, London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907, small 4to, publisher's gilt stamped green cloth, plates by Aubrey Beardsley, several loose leaf related newspaper cuttings, owner's label to front pastedown; with [ibid] The Happy Price and other Tales, London: Duckworth & Co., 1913, 4to, publisher's gilt stamped cloth, illustrated by Charles Robinson (2)
Footnote:Salome, the First Edition containing Beardsley's erotic plates, with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia, previous editions having been censored.
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Wilde (Oscar) and Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator) Salome A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde, With Sixteen Drawings By Aubrey Beardsley, London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1907, small 4to, publisher's gilt stamped green cloth, plates by Aubrey Beardsley, several loose leaf related newspaper cuttings, owner's label to front pastedown; with [ibid] The Happy Price and other Tales, London: Duckworth & Co., 1913, 4to, publisher's gilt stamped cloth, illustrated by Charles Robinson (2)
Salome, the First Edition containing Beardsley's erotic plates, with the suppressed title-page design showing hermaphrodite genitalia, previous editions having been censored.
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