An Ideal Husband (Signed First Edition)
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899.


An Ideal Husband (Signed First Edition)
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition. Quarto (215 × 175 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, boards elaborately gilt panelled, fan-shaped floral cornerpieces with red onlay, turquoise morocco doublures and watered silk endpapers, turns-ins and top edge gilt. Short closed tears to the top of the scenes and cast leaves professionally repaired. pine a little toned, very lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy, handsomely bound.
First edition, first impression, large paper issue. Being one of 100 numbered copies each signed by Wilde. (Item #670)
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