A House of Pomegranates

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Overview:

Title: A House of Pomegranates
Author: Oscar Wilde
Year: 1891
Publisher: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.
Price: 21/-
Pages: 158
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: The Young King
Notes: 1st ed. Title and illustrations in the text by Charles Ricketts. Four additional full-page illustrations by Charles Shannon. Edition of 1000 copies. Data from Christie's Auction House.

OCLC: "Responsibility: by Oscar Wilde ; the design & decoration of this book by C. Ricketts & C.H. Shannon"

Publ date and price from advertisement by the publisher The Observer 1891-11-22: -- "James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.'s new publications" (2nd of several) -- "A House of Pomegranates. By Oscar Wilde. With four full-page illustrations by C. H. Shannon, and numerous decorations in the text by C. Ricketts." With the endpaper executed in pale olive ... Second-listed of 5 books evidently available now, this one under centered heading "Faery Tales"; followed by 2, each under heading "Ready Next Week"; followed prominently by Harper's Magazine for December

HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy -- original cover (two-color) and endpapers (unicolor), both dense design -- title page densely illustrated, states year, represents publisher/imprint broadly as does verso -- t.p. verso 7-line imprint above illustration (quote): London // James R. Osgood // McIlvaine // & Co // 45 // Albemarle // Street -- next page gives Contents thus (all caps): "The Young King; The Birthday of the Infanta, and Other Beautiful Tales." -- text ends p[158] -- p[159] shows small illustration (logo?) over "Chiswick Press:--C. Whittingham and Co. // Tooks Court, Chancery Lane." Ynbsp; Title page credit "The design & decoration of this book by C. Ricketts & C.H. Shannon" may be interpreted as joint or as design by CR and decoration by CHS; neither fits the attribution by Christie's. Two leaves preceding each story are excluded from the pagination. These four pages evidently include one full-page illustration each story (attributed to Shannon by Christie's) but they are nearly blank as displayed from the digital copy (color?). Numerous smaller illustrations, b/w, exceptionally clear thruout, are not evidently signed.