Miscellanies

Miscellanies, by Oscar Wilde
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Title: Miscellanies Author: Oscar Wilde Release Date: November 16, 2004 [eBook #14062] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MISCELLANIES***
Transcribed from the 1908 edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
MISCELLANIES BY OSCAR WILDE
DEDICATION: TO WALTER LEDGER
Since these volumes are sure of a place in your marvellous library I trust that with your unrivalled knowledge of the various editions of Wilde you may not detect any grievous error whether of taste or type, of omission or commission. But should you do so you must blame the editor , and not those who so patiently assisted him, the proof readers , the printers, or the publishers. Some day , however, I look forward to your bibliography of the author, in which you will be at liberty to criticise my capacity for anything except regard and friendship for yourself .—Sincerely yours, ROBERT ROSS May 25, 1908.
INTRODUCTION
The concluding volume of any collected edition is unavoidably fragmentary and desultory. And if this particular volume is no exception to a general tendency, it ...