WILDE, OSCAR,DE PROFUNDIS. London: Methuen, (1905). Publisher's blue cloth. First trade edition, with ads at the rear dated "Feb. 1905." With the ownership signature: "A. L. Lilley / 1905" on the front free endpaper. This is an interesting association as Canon Lilley knew both the author and Constance Wilde well. (See G. K. Chesterton's "Oscar Wilde's Scandalous Summer"). With the Herbert Boyce Satcher booklabel.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $200-300
