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Preface and seven additional chapters which were first published in the
London edition of 1891. In other cases certain passages have been
mutilated, and faulty spellings and misprints are numerous.
AUTHORISED EDITIONS
(I) First published in _Lippincott's Monthly Magazine_, July, 1890.
London: Ward, Lock & Co. _Copyrighted in London_.
Published _simultaneously_ in America. Philadelphia: J.-B. Lippincott
Co. _Copyrighted in the United States of America_.
(II) A Preface to "Dorian Gray." _Fortnightly Review_, March 1, 1891.
London: Chapman & Hall. (_All rights reserved._)
(III) With the Preface and Seven additional chapters. London, New York,
and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. (n. d.).
(Of this edition 250 copies were issued on L.P., _dated_ 1891.)
(IV) The same. London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Bowden. (n.
d.).
(Published 1894 or 1895.) See Stuart Mason's "Art and Morality" (page
153).
THE FOLLOWING EDITIONS
were issued by Charles Carrington, _Publisher and Literary Agent_, late
of 13 Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, and 10 _Rue de la Tribune_, BRUSSELS
(Belgium), to whom the Copyright belongs.
(V) Small 8vo, vii 334 pages, printed on English antique wove paper,
silk-cloth boards. 500 copies, 1901.
(VI) The same, vii 327 pages, silk-cloth boards. 500 copies, 1905.
Of this edition 100 copies were issued on hand-made paper.
(VII) 4to, vi 312 pages, broad margins, claret-coloured paper wrappers,
title on label on the outside. 250 copies. Price 10_s_. 6_d_. 1908
(February).
(VIII) Cr. 8vo, uniform with Methuen's (London) complete edition of
Wilde's _Works_. xi 362 pages, printed on hand-made paper, white cloth,
gilt extra.
1000 copies. Price 12_s._ 6_d._ 1908 (April 16).
Of this edition 80 further copies were printed on Imperial Japanese
vellum, full vellum binding, gilt extra. Price 42_s_.
(IX) Illustrated edition. Containing seven fullpaged illustrations by
Paul Thirlat, engraved on Wood by Eugene Dete (both of Paris), and
artistically printed by Brendon & Son, Ltd. (of Plymouth), 4to, vi 312
pages, half parchment bound, with corners, and _fleur-de-lys_ on side.
1908-9. Price 15_s._
(X) Small edition, uniform with Messrs. Methuen's Issue of "Oscar
Wilde's Works" at same price. 12mo, xii and 352 pages. 2000 copies.
Bound in green cloth. 1910. Price 5_s._
It follows from all this that, with the exception of the version in
_Lippincott's Magazine_ only those editions ar
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