Intentions. The Decay of Lying, Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. First Edition Thus. Pp, 236. . Raised bands to spine with gilt panels & lettering; all edges in gilt. Leather turn-ins with gilt lines. light fading to spine, but overall a fine bright copy.

One of 600 copies, printed on van Gelder hand-made paper.

Contemporary arts & crafts-style binding in full polished morocco with gilt decoration & lettering to boards in the style of Sangorski and Sutcliffe

Wilde’s collected essays on aesthetics first appeared in The Nineteenth Century and The Fortnightly Review from 1885 to 1890