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Box Wildeiana 28

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Contains 92 Results:

Color photographs of Wilde's Tite Street house by Bob Wilson of the Phoenix Book Shop, about 1970s-1980s

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 41
Identifier: Subseries 4.2.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series:

This subseries contains documents and objects that are souvenirs of places or events associated with Oscar Wilde. The items are organized by type.

Dates: about 1970s-1980s

The Cresset Press Autumn 1927 prospectus, including The History of the Yellow Book by Arthur Symons, 1927

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 42
Identifier: Subgroup 4.1.4.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Group:

This subgroup contains publisher's announcements of the publication of editions of Wilde's works and books about Oscar Wilde. The subseries is arranged by publisher.

Dates: 1927

Prospectus for sale of original prints of William Powell Frith's "The Private View at the Royal Academy" from Christie's and the Royal Academy, 1981

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 43
Identifier: Subgroup 4.1.4.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Group:

This subgroup contains publisher's announcements of the publication of editions of Wilde's works and books about Oscar Wilde. The subseries is arranged by publisher.

Dates: 1981

Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1934, 1966

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 44
Identifier: Subgroup 4.1.3.
Scope and Contents

Catalogs for April 1934 (autograph and pencil from Wilde's American tour), September 1934 (large paper copy of The Sphinx), and September 1966 (letter from Lord Alfred Douglas).

Dates: 1934, 1966

Prospectus of the Fortune Press, including New Preface to The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, and The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 45
Identifier: Subgroup 4.1.4.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Group:

This subgroup contains publisher's announcements of the publication of editions of Wilde's works and books about Oscar Wilde. The subseries is arranged by publisher.

Dates: 1887-1954

Oscar Wilde keepsake, printed by Camp Books at the Sign of the Gold Bat, London, 2019

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 46
Identifier: Subseries 4.2.
Scope and Contents note From the Sub-Series:

This subseries contains documents and objects that are souvenirs of places or events associated with Oscar Wilde. The items are organized by type.

Dates: 2019

Oscar Wilde commemorative stamps from Ireland, 2000-2001

 File — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 47
Identifier: Subseries 4.2.
Scope and Contents

Includes stamps, first day issue cancellations, and other products, as well as correspondence to Clark Library staff.

Dates: 2000-2001

Jumbo Aesthetic, trade card for Clark’s O.N.T. Spool Cotton, 1882

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 48
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents

Trade card showing a tiny Oscar Wilde next to a standing Jumbo the elephant, who has a large sunflower on his chest. In 1882, both Wilde and Jumbo toured the US (the latter with P.T. Barnum's circus).

Dates: 1882

"Oh! Oscar," trade card J. & P. Coats spool cotton, about 1882?

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 49
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents

Lithographic trade card showing a boy in an aesthetic outfit, holding an armful of lilies and sunflowers, toppling backwards off a giant spool of thread that is being pulled by a dog who is chasing a bird. Clark Library purchase, 2000 (accession MS.2000.007).

Dates: about 1882?

Beard, W. H. (William Holbrook), 1824-1900, Painting of a monkey in aesthetic dress, gazing at a sunflower (reproduction from The Old Print Shop Portfolio), 1954

 Item — Box: Wildeiana 28, Folder: 50
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.
Scope and Contents

Clipped page from The Old Print Shop Portfolio, Volume XIII No. 5 (January 1954), showing a black and white reproduction of an 1881 painting by W.H. Beard.

Dates: 1954