A binding by Charles Ricketts for Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (original) (raw)

Detail of the Vellum backstrip and Card Boards for Charles Ricketts’s design for Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1891. Card with gilt overlays, 3 x 3 inches. [Click on image to enlarge it.]

This is a detail of Ricketts's daisies on the front cover. The book is otherwise quite plain - the vellum backstrip is bare except for lettering at the base, while the boards only bear the gilt design on the front cover. The book was issued in a dust-wrapper and good copies, without the jacket or with it, are extremely rare. The image shown here is taken from a damaged copy.

Photograph and text by Simon Cooke. Reproduced by kind permission of an anonymous collector [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link to this URL in a web document or cite it in a print one.]

Bibliography

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward & Lock, 1891.

Created 18 August 2018