Salome a Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde pictured by Aubrey Beardsley Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900) Literature

16mo, pp79 of the translation by Lord Alfred Douglas plus illustrated List of Pictures to front, complete with 10 b/w plates and tailpiece illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. Softcover issued without DJ in presentation box. Blue card presentation box with illustrated title label in very good condition with some rubbing to edges and fading to paper title label. The book itself still wrapped in original tissue paper and bound in soft illustrated card covers in good condition with some chipping to spine and edges. Inside all pages and plates in very good clean condition with the very odd fingermark. This is a beautiful, if inexpensively produced, pirate copy of the first English edition of Oscar Wilde's short tragic play, Salome. The play was originally published in French in 1893 and released in English translation a year later in hardback, accompanied by a selection of illustrations by the enormously influential Art Nouveau artist and illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and published by Elkin Mathews & John Lane. A very scarce early pirated edition.