Salome : a tragedy in one act / translated from the French of Oscar Wilde ; with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, author.

Contributor:

Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898, illustrator, cover designer.

Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918, writer of note.

Bodley Head (Firm), publisher.

John Lane Company, publisher.

William Clowes and Sons, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Salomé. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Salome (Biblical figure)--Drama.

Salome.

Salome (Biblical figure).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Drama.

Case bindings (Binding)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Gold blocked bindings (Binding)

Gilt edges (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Fernberger, Samuel Weiller, 1887-1956 (bookplate) (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], xiii-xviii, [2], 65, [1] pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

London : Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ltd.

Place of Publication:

London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, MCMVII [1907]

New York : John Lane Company

Language Note:

English translation by Alfred Douglas of: Salomé. See page xv.

Notes:

"A note on 'Salome'" by Robert Ross: Pages xiii-xviii.

Cover design and sixteen plates (leaves) by Aubrey Beardsley, including frontispiece, title leaf, facsimile of cover design, illustrated list of plates, and twelve illustrations.

Three pages of plates inserted after second half-title leaf consisting of a cast list of the first performance of this work in England and a facsimile reproduction of the playbill for the first performance of Richard Strauss's opera Salome.

Printer listed on last page of text.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Samuel Weiller Fernberger with his illustrated bookplate on front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare copy has paper slip with bookseller's printed description (of this copy?) affixed to front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare copy has dust jacket (damaged) laid in).

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Mason, S. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde, entry 355

Samuels Lasner, M. Selective checklist of the published work of Aubrey Beardsley, entry 59D

OCLC:

3460845