PIRATED EDITIONS

Owing to the number of unauthorised editions of "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY" issued at various times both in America and on the Continent of Europe, it has become necessary to indicate which are the only authorised editions of Oscar Wilde's masterpiece.

Many of the pirated editions are incomplete in that they omit the Preface and seven additional chapters which were first published in the London edition of 1891. In other cases certain passages have been mutilated, and faulty spellings and misprints are numerous.

AUTHORISED EDITIONS

(I) First published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, July, 1890. London: Ward, Lock & Co. Copyrighted in London.

Published simultaneously in America. Philadelphia: J.-B. Lippincott Co. Copyrighted in the United States of America.

(II) A Preface to "Dorian Gray." Fortnightly Review, March 1, 1891. London: Chapman & Hall. (All rights reserved.)

(III) With the Preface and Seven additional chapters. London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co. (n. d.).

(Of this edition 250 copies were issued on L.P., dated 1891.)

(IV) The same. London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Bowden. (n. d.).

(Published 1894 or 1895.) See Stuart Mason's "Art and Morality" (page 153).

THE FOLLOWING EDITIONS

were issued by Charles Carrington, Publisher and Literary Agent, late of 13 Faubourg Montmartre, Paris, and 10 Rue de la Tribune, Brussels (Belgium), to whom the Copyright belongs.

(V) Small 8vo, vii 334 pages, printed on English antique wove paper, silk-cloth boards. 500 copies, 1901.

(VI) The same, vii 327 pages, silk-cloth boards. 500 copies, 1905.

Of this edition 100 copies were issued on hand-made paper.

(VII) 4to, vi 312 pages, broad margins, claret-coloured paper wrappers, title on label on the outside. 250 copies. Price 10s. 6d. 1908 (February).

(VIII) Cr. 8vo, uniform with Methuen's (London) complete edition of Wilde's Works. xi 362 pages, printed on hand-made paper, white cloth, gilt extra.

1000 copies. Price 12s. 6d. 1908 (April 16).

Of this edition 80 further copies were printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, full vellum binding, gilt extra. Price 42s.

(IX) Illustrated edition. Containing seven fullpaged illustrations by Paul Thirlat, engraved on Wood by Eugène Dété (both of Paris), and artistically printed by Brendon & Son, Ltd. (of Plymouth), 4to, vi 312 pages, half parchment bound, with corners, and fleur-de-lys on side. 1908-9. Price 15s.

(X) Small edition, uniform with Messrs. Methuen's Issue of "Oscar Wilde's Works" at same price. 12mo, xii and 352 pages. 2000 copies. Bound in green cloth. 1910. Price 5s.

It follows from all this that, with the exception of the version in Lippincott's Magazine only those editions are authorised to be sold in Great Britain and her Colonies which bear the imprimatur of Ward, Lock & Co., London, or Charles Carrington, Paris and Brussels; and that all other editions, whether American, Continental (save Carrington's Paris editions above specified) or otherwise, may not be sold within British jurisdiction without infringing the Berne law of literary copyright and incurring the disagreements that may therefrom result.

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