Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Irish writer and leader of the Aesthetic Movement, and author of such works as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Happy Prince. Autograph quote (not signed) on an off-white 7 x 1.5 sheet. Wilde pens a quote from his Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, a book first published in London in 1894. In full: “There is a fatality about all good resolutions. They are invariably made too soon.” Matted and framed with an original cabinet photo of Wilde, taken in New York in 1882 by Sarony, to an overall size of 17 x 21. The consignor notes that the photo is easily removable from the frame. A repaired diagonal tear to left side slightly affecting a couple letters of quote, and a uniform shade of mild toning, otherwise fine condition.
The story from which the offered quotation originates was published in the December 1894—and the only—issue of the Oxford University student magazine, ‘The Chameleo.’ As an Oxford alumnus—who by the early 1890s had become one of London's most popular playwrights—Wilde had graduated with degrees in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores (Greats). Those who followed in his footsteps relished the chance to have the author contribute to their small publication, with Wilde apparently satisfied enough with his submission to quote a passage here.
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