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The fairy tales of Oscar Wilde / illustrations by Yuko Shimizu ; introduction by Michael Cunningham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, author.
- Series:
- Illuminated editions.
- Illuminated editions
- Standardized Title:
- Fairy tales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illustrated books.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Fairy tales--Illustrations.
- Wilde, Oscar.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Fiction.
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, iv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
- Edition:
- Illuminated edition.
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Beehive Books, 2019.
- Contents:
- The price of those gifts / a forward by Michael Cunningham
- The happy prince and other tales (1888)
- I. The happy prince
- II. The nightingale and the rose
- III. The selfish giant
- IV. The devoted friend
- . V. The remarkable rocket
- A house of pomegranates (1891)
- VI. The young king
- VII. The birthday of the Infanta
- VIII. The fisherman and his soul
- IX. The star-child
- Artist's note / by Yuko Shimizu
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Catalogued copy signed by illustrator and numbered on bookplate affixed to front pastedown.
- "Artwork by Yuko Shimizu; introduction by Michael Cunningham; designed by Maëlle Doliveux; edited by Josh O'Neill; published by Beehive Books, Philadelphia; publisher Josh O'Neill; creative director Maëlle Doliveux"--Title page verso.
- "First edition, 2019. Printed in China in an edition of two thousand five hundred copies. Typset at Beehive Books in Ten Oldstyle and Baskerville URW. The text is transcribed from the 1910 David Nutt edition of The happy prince and the 1915 Methuen and Co. edition of A house of pomegranates, with minimal edits for stylistic consitency"--Title page verso
- Issued in slipcase with circular cutout that reveals part of cover illustration.
- Catalogued copy accompanied by decorated bookmark and pin in the form of bird shown on cover illustration.
- Catalogued copy issued in special mailing box.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- Contains:
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Happy prince.
- Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. House of pomegranates.
- ISBN:
- 9781948886017
- 1948886014
- OCLC:
- 1084270892
- Publisher Number:
- 99990335002
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