98 Curiosa. The Trial of Francis Ravaillac, for the Murder of King Henry the Great. Edited by Edmund Goldsmid. Post 8vo. original cloth, uncut. Edinburgh. Privately printed, 1885. Scarce. $3.50
Edition limited to 275 copies only. Contains also an account of Ravaillac's torture and execution, extracted and translated from the Registers of the Parliament of Paris, 1610.
99 Curiosa. (Oscar Wilde). Oscariana Epigrams. Small 4to. pp. 88, original paper wrappers, uncut. London: Privately printed, 1895. Scarce. $5.00
A very limited number of copies only printed.
"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.... The Greeks with their quick artistic instinct understood this, and set in the bride's chamber the statue of Hermes and Apollo, that she might bear children as lovely as the works of art that she looked at in her rapture or her pain."
100 Curiosa. Oscar Wilde. His Life and Confessions. By Frank Harris. Illustrated. 2 vols. 8vo. cloth. New York: Privately printed, 1918. $5.00
"I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friends who have read it urged me not to publish it.
"You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say, "because sexual viciousness appeals to you, and your method of treatment lays you open to attack."—The Author.
Bernard Shaw writes: "This biography wipes out all other biographies ... Wilde's memory will have to stand or fall by it."
101 Curiosa. The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonzales, to the World in the Moon. Curious frontispiece depicting a flying-machine with birds used as power. 8vo. ¾ polished brown calf extra, gilt tooled back. London, 1768. $7.50