The portrait of Mr. W.H. / by Oscar Wilde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Contributor:

Thomas B. Mosher (Firm), publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets.

Shakespeare, William.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

74 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm

Manufacture:

Portland, Me. : George D. Loring.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Me. : Thomas B. Mosher, MDCCCCVIII [1908]

Notes:

Title page printed in red and black.

An imaginative attempt at the solution of the secret of Shakespeare's sonnets.

"This essay first appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine for July, 1889, and is here reprinted entire."

"Four hundred and twenty-five copies of this book (third edition) have been printed on Japan vellum, and type distributed in the month of February, A.D. MDCCCCVIII, at the press of George D. Loring, Portland Maine."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in case.

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 308.2

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 456

OCLC:

19475311