WILDE, Oscar 1854-1900 / ROSS, Robert Baldwin 1869-1918 - Preface. - — De Profundis By Oscar Wilde .

London: Methuen And Co., 36 Essex Street, Strand, 1905 . 0 True first edition. Original publisher's cloth binding. Gilt titles to front board and spine . Edges rubbed and bumped. Top and tail of spine very rubbed. One inch split to top of rear hinge. Deckled (rough-cut) page edges browned. Light foxing to preliminaries, otherwise clean text with just the odd light brown spot. pp.ix/[1p.]/pp.11-151/[1p.]/pp.40 [ "A Catalogue Of Books Published By Methuen...February 1905"]. Preface signed: Robert Ross. Colophon to base of p.151: 'Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press'. ** Referenced by: Mason, S. Wilde (new ed.) 388