{
  "full": "\n**OSCAR WILDE. DE PROFUNDIS. 1926–1934. (ML 117)**  \n\n#### 122. First printing (1926)  \n\n[within double rules] DE PROFUNDIS | [rule] | BY | OSCAR WILDE | [rule] | EDITED, WITH A PREFATORY | DEDICATION BY | ROBERT ROSS | [rule] | INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY | FRANK HARRIS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [*26*], xiii–[xiv], 1–154 [155–164]. [1–6]16  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A4; [*3*] title; [*4*] *Copyright* 1909, *by* G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS | (For Revised Edition) | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright* 1926, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1926; [*5*–*15*] INTRODUCTION signed p. [*15*]: Frank Harris. | February, 1926.; [*16*] blank; [*17*–*23*] A PREFATORY DEDICATION signed p. [*23*]: Robert Ross; [*24*] blank; [*25*] PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.; [*26*] blank; xiii CONTENTS.; [xiv] blank; 1–154 text; [155–160] ML list; [161–164] ML subject index. (*Fall 1925*)  \n\n*Contents:* Four Letters Written from Reading Prison – De Profundis – Two Letters to the *Daily Chronicle* on Prison Life.  \n\n> *Variant A:* Pp. [*28*], 1–154 [155–164]. [1]16(±4) [2–6]16. Contents as 122 except: [*26*] repetition of p. [*7*]; [*27*] CONTENTS.; [*28*] blank; [155–158] ML list; [159–163] ML subject index; [164] blank; *First* statement retained on p. [*4*]. (*Spring 1927*) *Note:* Page numeral “xiii” removed from plates; the plate for p. [*7*] was misimposed (and probably transposed with the plate for p. [*26*]) resulting in the cancellation and reprinting of the fourth leaf of the first gathering. \n\n> *Variant B:* Pp. [*28*], 1–154 [155–156]. [1–5]16 [6]12. Contents as variant A except: [*2*] pub. note D5; [*26*] blank; [155–156] blank.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2.  \n\n> Text on front: 
 “De Profundis” and “Papers On Prison Life,” included in this volume, were, with “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” the last writings of Oscar Wilde. The original manuscript consists of eighty close-written pages on blue stamped prison foolscap paper; it was written at intervals during the last six months of the author’s imprisonment, when courage and hope had been crushed from his soul, and his sense of grievance against Lord Alfred Douglas had been fanned to fever heat. \nFrank Harris’ illuminating introduction appears exclusively in the Modern Library edition of “De Profundis.” (*Spring 1926*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905; revised edition with additional matter published by Putnam, 1909. ML edition (pp. [*17*]–154) printed from plates of revised Putnam edition with frontispiece portrait of Wilde omitted, page numerals removed from preliminaries, and table of contents revised to include Harris’s introduction. Published April 1926. *WR* 15 May 1926. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued as a separate volume, fall 1934; the entire contents, including Harris’s introduction and the prefatory dedication, were added to Wilde’s *Picture of Dorian Gray* (1.2b).  \n\nSales of *De Profundis* during the first six months of 1928 placed it 62nd out of 147 ML titles.  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library\nWilde, *Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose* (1918–1931) 58
 Wilde, *An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance* (1920–1931) 77
 Wilde, *Intentions* (1921–1928) 93
 Wilde, *Picture of Dorian Gray* (1917–1934; 1963–1971; 1985–1991) 1
 Wilde, *Picture of Dorian Gray & De Profundis* (1934–1963) 1.2b
 Wilde, *Plays of Oscar Wilde* (1932–1971; 1980– ) 241
 Wilde, *Poems* (1917–1931) 19
 Wilde, *Poems and Fairy Tales* (1932–1970) 242
 Wilde, *Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan* (1920–1931) 76  \n\n",
  "id": "122",
  "year": "1926",
  "label": "OSCAR WILDE. DE PROFUNDIS. 1926–1934. (ML 117)",
  "author": "OSCAR WILDE",
  "title": "DE PROFUNDIS.",
  "date": "1926–1934.",
  "something": "ML 117",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "id": "122",
      "title": "First printing (1926)  ",
      "full": "\n\n[within double rules] DE PROFUNDIS | [rule] | BY | OSCAR WILDE | [rule] | EDITED, WITH A PREFATORY | DEDICATION BY | ROBERT ROSS | [rule] | INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY | FRANK HARRIS | [rule] | [torchbearer A2] | [rule] | THE MODERN LIBRARY | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK  \n\nPp. [*26*], xiii–[xiv], 1–154 [155–164]. [1–6]16  \n\n[*1*] half title; [*2*] pub. note A4; [*3*] title; [*4*] *Copyright* 1909, *by* G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS | (For Revised Edition) | [short double rule] | *Introduction Copyright* 1926, *by* | THE MODERN LIBRARY, INC. | [short double rule] | *First Modern Library Edition* | 1926; [*5*–*15*] INTRODUCTION signed p. [*15*]: Frank Harris. | February, 1926.; [*16*] blank; [*17*–*23*] A PREFATORY DEDICATION signed p. [*23*]: Robert Ross; [*24*] blank; [*25*] PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.; [*26*] blank; xiii CONTENTS.; [xiv] blank; 1–154 text; [155–160] ML list; [161–164] ML subject index. (*Fall 1925*)  \n\n*Contents:* Four Letters Written from Reading Prison – De Profundis – Two Letters to the *Daily Chronicle* on Prison Life.  \n\n> *Variant A:* Pp. [*28*], 1–154 [155–164]. [1]16(±4) [2–6]16. Contents as 122 except: [*26*] repetition of p. [*7*]; [*27*] CONTENTS.; [*28*] blank; [155–158] ML list; [159–163] ML subject index; [164] blank; *First* statement retained on p. [*4*]. (*Spring 1927*) *Note:* Page numeral “xiii” removed from plates; the plate for p. [*7*] was misimposed (and probably transposed with the plate for p. [*26*]) resulting in the cancellation and reprinting of the fourth leaf of the first gathering. \n\n> *Variant B:* Pp. [*28*], 1–154 [155–156]. [1–5]16 [6]12. Contents as variant A except: [*2*] pub. note D5; [*26*] blank; [155–156] blank.  \n\n*Jacket A:* Uniform typographic jacket B2.  \n\n> Text on front: 
 “De Profundis” and “Papers On Prison Life,” included in this volume, were, with “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” the last writings of Oscar Wilde. The original manuscript consists of eighty close-written pages on blue stamped prison foolscap paper; it was written at intervals during the last six months of the author’s imprisonment, when courage and hope had been crushed from his soul, and his sense of grievance against Lord Alfred Douglas had been fanned to fever heat. \nFrank Harris’ illuminating introduction appears exclusively in the Modern Library edition of “De Profundis.” (*Spring 1926*)  \n\n*Jacket B:* Uniform typographic jacket D. (*Spring 1930*)  \n\nOriginally published in U.S. by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905; revised edition with additional matter published by Putnam, 1909. ML edition (pp. [*17*]–154) printed from plates of revised Putnam edition with frontispiece portrait of Wilde omitted, page numerals removed from preliminaries, and table of contents revised to include Harris’s introduction. Published April 1926. *WR* 15 May 1926. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued as a separate volume, fall 1934; the entire contents, including Harris’s introduction and the prefatory dedication, were added to Wilde’s *Picture of Dorian Gray* (1.2b).  \n\nSales of *De Profundis* during the first six months of 1928 placed it 62nd out of 147 ML titles.  \n\nAlso in the Modern Library\nWilde, *Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose* (1918–1931) 58
 Wilde, *An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance* (1920–1931) 77
 Wilde, *Intentions* (1921–1928) 93
 Wilde, *Picture of Dorian Gray* (1917–1934; 1963–1971; 1985–1991) 1
 Wilde, *Picture of Dorian Gray & De Profundis* (1934–1963) 1.2b
 Wilde, *Plays of Oscar Wilde* (1932–1971; 1980– ) 241
 Wilde, *Poems* (1917–1931) 19
 Wilde, *Poems and Fairy Tales* (1932–1970) 242
 Wilde, *Salomé, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere’s Fan* (1920–1931) 76  \n\n"
    }
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}