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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by [Wilde, Oscar] C. 3. 3

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author
[Wilde, Oscar] C. 3. 3
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
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Description
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Fine. One of thirty copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, this being copy twenty-four. Published under the pseudonym "C.3.3.," Wilde's cell number while he was at Reading Gaol, in an attempt to separate Wilde's then-notorious name from the publication. A lovely, Fine copy. Wilde's long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," published just two years before his death, draws on the experience of being imprisoned at Reading after his conviction for gross indecency in 1895. Wilde had, famously, faced a highly publicized trial that ended with a sentence of two years hard labor, which he served at Pentonville Prison, Wandsworth, and finally at Reading. The poem was directly inspired by Charles Thomas Woolridge, a fellow inmate who was executed at Reading after being convicted of murdering his wife. The crime was metaphorized by Wilde in his poem, which contains one his most famous lines: "Yet each man kills the thing he loves..." In the last three years of his life, which he spent in exile in Naples and then in Paris, Wilde continued to edit and publish his plays - the first editions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest were published during this period - but he wrote very little, having "lost the joy of writing" (Ellman, Oscar Wilde). "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," then, was the last new literary work of Wilde's career, and perhaps his most haunting. He concludes his poem with the elegiac stanza: "And all men kill the thing they love, / By all let this be heard, / Some do it with a bitter look, / Some with a flattering word, / The coward does it with a kiss, / The brave man with a sword." Fine.
Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria

Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria by Brunner, J C von - DIABETES - NEUROLOGY

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Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria
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Brunner, J C von - DIABETES - NEUROLOGY
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Very good; bright; front joint broken and cover detached.
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Frankfurt & Heidelberg: Joh. Maximilian. `a Sande, 1715. First Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Very good; bright; front joint broken and cover detached.. Small 4to, [14], [2 - blank], 199, [1 - errata] pp. + large engraved folding plate (composed of two joined sheets). Brunner was a noted 17th century pathologist. This tract brings together two of his most important works. The first contains the discovery of 'Brunner's Glands' and his near discovery of pancreatic diabetes. The second is his monograph on the pituitary body. There is apparently a variant imprint in the same year - there is no priority established. There is also a discrepancy in some listings citing one or two plates. In some copies the sheets with the individual figures are joined making for one large plate with two figures (as in this copy); in other copies the sheets are bound individually so that each figure is counted as a separate 'plate' when in fact it is not the case. See G - M #975 & 3927; Waller #1568; Hirsch I, 738.

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