The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Wilde, Oscar

Forster, Peter (illus.)

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(Berkshire, England: Carpathian Press, 1999). Octavo. 103, (3)pp. From an edition of 125 copies, this is copy number I of twenty-five specially bound in full morocco by Anthony Wessely. Signed by the illustrator, Peter Forster, and director and screenwriter Bryan Forbes, who wrote the Introduction. Printed by Andrew Dolinski at the Carpathian Press on mould-made papers, and illustrated with six full-page wood engravings by Forster depicting "the macabre ritual of a judicial hanging." Bound in full green morocco, with title and decorations in gilt on the spine, and housed in a cloth slipcase. Spine very lightly sunned, else very fine. With only five copies from the entire edition of 125 recorded in institutions, this is a surprisingly rare modern press book. T.e.g. (Item ID: 23703)