Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) & J.E. Laboureur, illus. (1877-1943) Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, extra-illustrated in a fine binding.

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) & J.E. Laboureur, illus. (1877-1943)


Le Portrait de Dorian Gray, extra-illustrated in a fine binding.



Paris: Société d'éditions Le Livre, 1928.



Limited edition, quarto; number 2 of 20 copies printed on Japon with three suites of engravings, from a total of 280; text in French, translated from English by Edmond Jaloux and Félix Frapereau; illustrated with 23 burin text engravings, with three additional suites: the first state on Vieux Japon, the regular state on Holland Van Gelder, and a suite from the cancelled plates on Japon; elaborately bound by Marot-Rodde in full brown morocco, the front board with gilt-tooled around a central panel of onlaid shagreen, polished black calf doublures, gilt-speckled endleaves, all edges gilt; with the original printed wrappers preserved and bound-in at ends (faint marginal foxing to a few of the additional suite engravings); housed in the original quarter morocco chemise and matching slipcase; 11 1/2 x 8 in.



[Together with] Four handwritten letters from Laboureur to collector André Jacques, one autographed, two dictated to his wife and signed by him, and the fourth entirely by his wife; all single sheets dated between 1940-1941, tipped onto a blank preceding the additional suites; various sizes.