• Publication: A House of PomegranatesPublication Record # 299788
• Author: Oscar Wilde
• Date: 1891-11-00
• Publisher: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.
• Price:
  21/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 158
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• 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.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 2630344

Contents (view Concise Listing)

•  A House of Pomegranates • interior artwork by Charles Ricketts [as by C. Ricketts]
•  A House of Pomegranates • interior artwork by Charles H. Shannon [as by C. H. Shannon]
• 1 • The Young King • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 27 • The Birthday of the Infanta • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 63 • The Fisherman and His Soul • (1891) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 129 • The Star-Child • (1891) • short story by Oscar Wilde