Some edgewear with chipping particularly to the spine of wraps. Dust wrapper is generally smart, with some discolouration and age toning to the wraps, as well as very light spotting. Externally, excellent, with minimal bumping to the extremities and a little bit of fading to the gilt. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. He wrote plays, poetry, and published other works such as satirical epigrams as well as the popular novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.?Collated, complete. The true complete and correct version did not appear until 1962.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a Irish poet and playwright. It includes typing mistakes as well as some enhancements added by Ross himself. For this 1949 edition, Holland was the first to publish the 'full text', but used a faulty typeset bequeathed to him by Ross. It was written to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and recounts the events leading up to Wilde's prison conviction for gross indecency, as well as the spiritual development that he found while imprisoned.The manuscript was entrusted to the journalist Robert Ross, who published an incomplete version of the letter in 1905. First 'Unabridged Edition'.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.?With an introduction by Vyvyan Holland, Wilde's son and the person responsible for this edition's publication.?'De Profundis', Latin for 'from the depths', is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his time imprisoned at the Reading Gaol. The 1949 edition of Wilde's 'De Profundis', published by his son Vyvyan Holland and in the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Oscar wilde de profundis full text