The Poems of Oscar Wilde
John Quinn's Bookplate
1906
F.M. Buckles & Company
8vo
Description:
Poems of Oscar Wilde previously owned by John Quinn, Irish-American bibliophile who helped W.B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre.
A lovely scarce collection of Wilde's poetry in 2 volumes with John Quinn's bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes. The bookplate was designed by Jack B Yeats. Quinn was a successful New York lawyer who gave frequent financial support to Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot. He arranged for Eliot's Wasteland to be published in the US and Quinn purchased a manuscript of Ulysses as it was being written, enabling Joyce to finish the novel. Quinn was no doubt one of the chief patrons of the early 20th century modernist movement and this book would have sat in his vast collection.
Condition:
Good Condition. Blue cloth covered boards with lettering plates to spine and front board. Bindings are firm. Gilt top-edge.Pages are lightly spotted. Wonderful rough-cut edges. Book plate to both volume's front pastedown. Boards are good with slight loss to cloth on top-edge of volume one. General light marking and fraying to spine ends.
The Poems of Oscar Wilde
John Quinn's Bookplate
1906
F.M. Buckles & Company
8vo
Description:
Poems of Oscar Wilde previously owned by John Quinn, Irish-American bibliophile who helped W.B. Yeats found the Abbey Theatre.
A lovely scarce collection of Wilde's poetry in 2 volumes with John Quinn's bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes. The bookplate was designed by Jack B Yeats. Quinn was a successful New York lawyer who gave frequent financial support to Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot. He arranged for Eliot's Wasteland to be published in the US and Quinn purchased a manuscript of Ulysses as it was being written, enabling Joyce to finish the novel. Quinn was no doubt one of the chief patrons of the early 20th century modernist movement and this book would have sat in his vast collection.
Condition:
Good Condition. Blue cloth covered boards with lettering plates to spine and front board. Bindings are firm. Gilt top-edge.Pages are lightly spotted. Wonderful rough-cut edges. Book plate to both volume's front pastedown. Boards are good with slight loss to cloth on top-edge of volume one. General light marking and fraying to spine ends.
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