An Ideal Husband

Limited Edition. Pp. xii, 239. Original cream white buckram, gilt lettering and emblematic devices by Charles Ricketts to the front cover, the spines similarly lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 1/1000 printed copies on hand made paper. A volume from the first Collected Edition of Wilde's works, the texts mostly taken from the last editions to be supervised by the Author, and much of the contents being published for the first time. Originally published by Leonard Smithers and Co., London, 1899.

Minor age toning to spine and fore- and bottom edges, else Fine.

Serious comedy revolving around blackmail and political corruption, it premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on January 3, 1895, where it played for 124 performances.

[Mason, 420–448a]