Intentions. The Decay of Lying. Pen Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist, The Truth of Masks. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1891. First Edition. Pp, 258. Original smooth light green cloth, title in gilt to upper cover and spine. Light shelf-wear to boards, small tear to tail of spine, contents in excellent condition throughout.

Nine-hundred copies of this, the UK, edition were printed.

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

Of this edition 1,500 copies were printed, of which 600 were issued in America.

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