5/24/2023 0 Comments The reading gaol![]() ![]() Covers show slight insect damage and minor soiling, spine a bit soiled, otherwise a very good copy in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemise and with the bookplate and signature of actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957) on the front pastedown First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum.įirst edition, retaining the understandably rare thin plain jacket. Mason 372 Cinnamon-colored cloth, vellum spine. ![]() An excellent association copy of an essential Wilde rarity. His plays were so very brilliant, and I had seen this when I was in Lady Windermere's, so I felt that he was a friend and in desperate trouble." Later, during WWI, she is known to have pioneered the organization of entertainments on a large scale for the British troops in France. the atmosphere of London was horrible and cruel. of Hertfordshire Press, 2012), Ashwell was particularly troubled by the news of Wilde's arrest, and wrote later: ". According to her biographer, Margaret Leask (Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer. This copy comes from the distinguished library of the actress LENA ASHWELL (1872-1957), who as a young actress toured in Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan in 1891, later becoming actor-manager of the Savoy Theatre. First edition of Wilde's legendary poem, written while he was imprisoned, in its rarest state - being one of only 30 copies printed on Japanese vellum. ![]() First edition, ONE OF 30 COPIES on Japanese vellum. ![]()
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