Oscar Wilde : a study

/ from the French of André Gide, with introduction, notes and bibliography by Stuart Mason. Oxford : The Holywell Press, 1905. Edition limited to 500 copies. Octavo (205 x 150 mm), publisher’s grey papered boards (bottom edges chipped) with printed title-pieces to upper board and spine (sunned); pp. [12], 110, [2]; illustrated with a frontispiece plate (tissue guard intact) and 4 additional plates; endpapers with offsetting, light spotting to outermost leaves, occasional pencilled marginalia; a very good copy.

Gide’s tribute to Wilde was originally published in the June 1902 edition of L’Ermitage. It contains a poem by Wilde not reprinted since its original appearance in Dublin University Magazine in 1876, and a list of Wilde’s works with bibliographical notes. Gide’s memoir of the two great writers’ encounters in France and North Africa is regarded as one of the best accounts of Wilde’s later years.