WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salomé . Paris and London: Librairie de l'art indépendant and Elkin Mathew and John Lane, 1893. 8 o. Original purple wrappers, lettered in silver on the front cover (silver rubbed, wrappers faded, a few minor creases at corners); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : ROBERT ROSS, Wilde's friend and literary executor (signature on front blank); Alexander Hamilton Rice and Eleanor Elkins Rice (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, ROBERT ROSS'S COPY of Wilde's play, inscribed by Ross on the front blank: "54 Church Street. Kensington. Robert Ross. Feb. 20th/93." Robert Ross first met Oscar Wilde in 1886 and would remain Wilde's constant and loyal friend until Wilde's death in 1900, upon which Ross became his literary executor. In 1905, Ross published De Profundis , an abridged version of Wilde's tormented prison letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, and 1908, he published The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde . Always marred by illness, Ross died suddenly in 1918, leaving instructions that he was to be cremated and his ashes taken to Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris to be placed within Wilde's tomb. His family arranged his cremation, but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950, the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde's death. Mason 348. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.
WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salomé . Paris and London: Librairie de l'art indépendant and Elkin Mathew and John Lane, 1893. 8 o. Original purple wrappers, lettered in silver on the front cover (silver rubbed, wrappers faded, a few minor creases at corners); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : ROBERT ROSS, Wilde's friend and literary executor (signature on front blank); Alexander Hamilton Rice and Eleanor Elkins Rice (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, ROBERT ROSS'S COPY of Wilde's play, inscribed by Ross on the front blank: "54 Church Street. Kensington. Robert Ross. Feb. 20th/93." Robert Ross first met Oscar Wilde in 1886 and would remain Wilde's constant and loyal friend until Wilde's death in 1900, upon which Ross became his literary executor. In 1905, Ross published De Profundis , an abridged version of Wilde's tormented prison letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, and 1908, he published The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde . Always marred by illness, Ross died suddenly in 1918, leaving instructions that he was to be cremated and his ashes taken to Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris to be placed within Wilde's tomb. His family arranged his cremation, but his ashes were not taken to Paris until 30 November 1950, the fiftieth anniversary of Wilde's death. Mason 348. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY.
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