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oarse 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/-. ii. Seventy-five copies on English hand-made paper, bound in water-coloured silk, 31/6. iii. Fifty copies on Imperial Japanese vellum, with an extra set of the illustrations printed on China paper, L3/3/-.
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