![]() ![]() ![]() The 'previously unknown' 1893 First Edition of Oscar Wilde's Salomé Nevertheless, the play eventually had its debut performance at Paris's Theatre de l'Oeuvre, on Februthe same city in which Wilde would die four years later, penniless and destitute, aged just 46. A year before this edition was published in 1892, Lord Chamberlain's licensor banned the play in London for its illegal depiction of biblical characters. This 1893 signed and inscribed London/Paris First Edition is all the more remarkable for being in French, which Wilde spoke and wrote fluently.Ĭontroversy dogged Wilde throughout his life, and Salomé was no exception. The Irish poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) began writing Salomé in 1861. ![]() A previously unknown First Edition of one of the most important plays ever written starred in Dominic Winter's UK auction of Printed Books & Maps, yesterday (July 22). ![]()
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