Covers of pale blue, brown, or drab, lettered in red on front:—FOUR COMPLETE/STORIES/FROM LIPPINCOTT/and in gold on back in five lines; with WARD, LOCK & CO./London, New York Melbourne/at bottom. All edges cut and plain.
Page 409 (September) contains "A Revulsion from Realism," by Anne H. Wharton, and 412 "The Romance of the Impossible," by Julian Hawthorne, these being reviews of "Dorian Gray."
iv. THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. March 1891. London: Chapman & Hall. Price 2/6. This number contains on pages 480-1 "A PREFACE TO 'DORIAN GRAY,'" consisting of 23 aphorisms and epigrams. In the novel, as it appeared in book form in the following
July, another, the 13th, was added making 24 in all. It is as follows: No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
In the 15th paragraph the author altered his words, his art to an art, and in the 16th paragraph the words form and feeling are no longer spelt with capital initial letters. The last word in the 23rd paragraph is changed from inordinately to intensely. The Preface as revised appears in all editions of the book, which contain twenty chapters.
II. i. THE PICTURE OF/DORIAN GRAY./By/OSCAR WILDE./Ward, Lock and Co., London, New York and Melbourne./1891./
The edition was limited to 250 copies (signed by the author) on large sized (8-1/2 by 7 in.) Van Gelder hand-made paper, top edges gilt, sides uncut. With gilt lettering, and outside wrappers, designed by Charles Ricketts. Pp. vii., 334. Price 21/-.
ii. The same on small paper (7-1/2 by 5 in.) all edges uncut. Binding similar to the last, but with less elaborate gilt tooling. Undated. Price 6/-.
The date of this edition is given in the English Catalogue as May, 1891, but Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co., consider July 1st as the actual day of publication, though the Athenæum reviewed the book under "Novels of the Week," on June 27. (see page 125).
iii. New Edition of the same (1894). Ward, Lock and Bowden. Undated. Price 6/-.