CHAPTER XIII. (XX.)

100 He seized it, and stabbed the canvas with it, ripping the thing right up from top to bottom. (333)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY.

(a) ORIGINAL EDITIONS. (b) UNAUTHORISED EDITIONS. (c) TRANSLATIONS:-- (i.) Dutch. (ii.) French. (iii.) German. (iv.) Italian. (v.) Polish. (vi.) Russian. (vi.) Swedish.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY.

(a) Original Editions.

* I. i. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. July, 1890. London: Ward, Lock & Co. Price 1/-. Size 9 by 6 in. The cover, printed in red and black, is inscribed: This Number contains a Complete Novel,/THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./ The story occupies pages 3 to 100.

* ii. LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE. July, 1890. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. Price 25 cents. Similar to above, but cover inscribed: This Number contains THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./Complete./It contains also a title-page with THE PICTURE/OF/ DORIAN GRAY,/by OSCAR WILDE./ Philadelphia:/J.B. Lippincott Company./

* iii. FOUR COMPLETE NOVELS/BY FAMOUS AUTHORS,/FROM/ LIPPINCOTT'S/MONTHLY MAGAZINE. /With/Short Stories,/Essays (Critical and Biographical), Poetry, and/Articles on Miscellaneous Subjects. /Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co.,/ London: Warwick House, Salisbury Square, E.C./New York: Bond Street./Melbourne: St. James's Street. Sydney: York Street./ (Half-title) THE COMPLETE NOVELS IN THIS VOLUME/ Comprise the following/

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. By Oscar Wilde./

WHAT GOLD CANNOT BUY. By Mrs. Alexander./

THE MARK OF THE BEAST. By Katharine Pearson Woods./

A MARRIAGE AT SEA. By W. Clark Russell./

Pp. 578. Containing the monthly parts (without wrappers or advertisements), for July to October, 1890.

Covers of pale blue, brown, or drab, lettered in red on front:--FOUR COMPLETE/STORIES/FROM LIPPINCOTT/and in gold on back in five lines; with WARD, LOCK & CO./London, New York Melbourne/at bottom. All edges cut and plain.

Page 409 (September) contains "A Revulsion from Realism," by Anne H. Wharton, and 412 "The Romance of the Impossible," by Julian Hawthorne, these being reviews of "Dorian Gray."

iv. THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. March 1891. London: Chapman & Hall. Price 2/6. This number contains on pages 480-1 "A PREFACE TO 'DORIAN GRAY,'" consisting of 23 aphorisms and epigrams. In the novel, as it appeared in book form in the following

July, another, the 13th, was added making 24 in all. It is as follows: _No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything._

In the 15th paragraph the author altered his words, _his art_ to _an art_, and in the 16th paragraph the words _form_ and _feeling_ are no longer spelt with capital initial letters. The last word in the 23rd paragraph is changed from _inordinately_ to _intensely_. The Preface as revised appears in all editions of the book, which contain twenty chapters.

II. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./Ward, Lock and Co., London, New York and Melbourne./1891./

The edition was limited to 250 copies (signed by the author) on large sized (8-1/2 by 7 in.) Van Gelder hand-made paper, top edges gilt, sides uncut. With gilt lettering, and outside wrappers, designed by Charles Ricketts. Pp. vii., 334. Price 21/-.

ii. The same on small paper (7-1/2 by 5 in.) all edges uncut. Binding similar to the last, but with less elaborate gilt tooling. Undated. Price 6/-.

The date of this edition is given in the _English Catalogue_ as May, 1891, but Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., consider July 1st as the actual day of publication, though the _Athenæum_ reviewed the book under "Novels of the Week," on June 27. (see page 125).

iii. New Edition of the same (1894). Ward, Lock and Bowden. Undated. Price 6/-.

This edition was prepared for publication towards the end of 1894, but it was not issued. About a year later it was sold off to the booksellers as a "remainder," the date of his publication being according to the _English Catalogue_, October, 1895.

b) Unauthorised Editions.

* III. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./New York: M.J. Ivers and Co "American Series," No. 195. Size, 7 by 4-3/4 in. Blue and white ornamental wrappers. Dated June 22, 1890. Price 25 cents. Several impressions have been issued.

* IV. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By OSCAR WILDE./New York: Geo. Munro's Sons. "Seaside Library," No. 2143. Pocket Edition. Size 7-1/4 by 5 in. Yellow wrappers. Dated May 11, 1895, pp. 125. Price 25 cents. Several impressions have been issued.

* ii. The same. Later editions, from September, 1898, in blue and white ornamental wrappers. The 4th impression was issued in December, 1905. All are printed from stereotyped plates on coarse paper. Covers all dated May 11, 1895.

* iii. The same. "Savoy Series," No. 221. White wrappers with picture and lettering in brown. Cover dated 1900. The second impression was issued in January, 1905, but all reprints bear date 1900.

* V. The same. A Novel. "Arrow Library," No. 166. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. New York: Street & Smith. Undated (1901).

* VI. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY./BY/OSCAR WILDE./Privately Printed/1890. Size 8-3/4 by 5-3/4 in. Light blue-grey boards, label on back. Uncut edges. This is an unauthorised reprint published in London about 1903-4. Price from 10/6 to 21/-. Pp. 249.

VII. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY/by/OSCAR WILDE./New York: Charterhouse Press, 1904. Size 8-3/4 by 6-1/4 in. Limited to 800 numbered copies. Top edges gilt, sides uncut. Contains Publisher's note, Artist's preface, and a short Biography of the Author. Facing title is a full-length portrait of "Dorian Gray," by "Basil Hallward," which inspired the story. Pp. xv., 334. Price $3.50c. With loose outside wrapper. The publisher was Donald Bruce Wallace. The edition was transferred to Brentano's of New York, in 1905. Price $3.00 net.

The English Copyright of _Dorian Gray_ was purchased from Ward, Lock and Bowden, in January, 1905, by Charles Carrington, of Paris, who has issued the following editions.

VIII. THE PICTURE/OF/DORIAN GRAY/BY/OSCAR WILDE./Paris: Charles Carrington. Cr. 8vo, Pp. vii., 334. Blue boards, gilt lettering with title DORIAN GREY. Price 12/6. 1901.

IX. i. Same Publisher. New Edition. Size 7-1/2 by 5-1/2 in. Top edges gilt, sides uncut. Shot green silk boards, with water-lily design in black on front. Pp. vii., 327. 1905. Price 10/6.

ii. The same. An edition, strictly limited to 100 copies, on hand-made paper, from the same plates. Issued in various forms of binding. Price 15s. No. IX. is now the "Sole Authorised Edition."

Mr. Charles Carrington has in preparation a new edition which will contain some twenty-five illustrations (seven of which will be full-page) most of them engraved on wood. The artist is M. Paul Thiriat. The edition, each copy of which will be numbered, Will consist of:--

X. i. Library Edition. 100 copies on English antique paper, cloth bound, 21/-.