Salomé / Oscar Wilde ; translated and introduced by R.A. Walker ; illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225394
Summary
Bibliographic description
107, [3] p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Card inserted with typescript: "With good wishes from Mrs. Iona Massada". Binding: publisher's black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; with dust jacket.
Makers and roles
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Aubrey Beardsley (Brighton 1872 – Menton, France 1898) Rainforth Armitage Walker (1886 - 1960)