The Soul of Man. London: Humphreys, 1907. Pp, 90, uncut. Original green cloth boards with gilt floral design to upper cover & along spine. Light wear to spine ends, neat ownership inscription to pastedown, otherwise a nice clean copy. [Mason 368].

First published in 1895 this was Wilde’s last major work of critical prose and is described by Wilde biographer Owen Dudley Edwards as “perhaps the most memorable and certainly the most aesthetic statement of anarchist theory in the English language” (DNB)