THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING OSCAR.

UK,slim,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,reprint.[Originally published, 1988,it was reprinted 6 times and as there is no indicative other subsequent date - assumed reprinted publication in the same year - of 1988.There is another,but a private press's similar edition of the title,'LILY & HODGE & Dr JOHNSON' by The Primrose Academy,1998 - a woodcut illustrated Ltd edn (of 225 copies) and artist SIGNED - brought together with the artist's prior published title: 'The Importance of Being Oscar'.The two titles being brought together for the first time.This is the first single appearance of the 1st title and precedes the Private Press edn.] FINE+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glazed boards with glossy white background with b/w,red and grey pictorial vignette illustrated front with black+brown lettering to front; rear board with b/w,grey+yellow thumbnail vignette with black text and black lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks tears or splits present.B/w reposing/sleeping cat vignettes illustrated endpapers.UK,slim,rectangular,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,reprint edn,48pp [unpaginated and including free endpapers] includes b/w vignetted half-title page,a b/w woodcut illustrated title page,a b/w vignette illustrated foreword,20 pages of b/w woodcut illustration,each with Oscar Wilde epigrams/quotes text and blank to their reverse,and a b/w woodcut vignette illustrated afterword at the rear.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on October 10th,1854 and died on 30th November,1900 in Paris.Oscar cat was born in obscure circumstances in north London in 1973.At the age of three months he adopted,courtesy of the RSPCA,the wood engraver Yvonne Skargon and began an association with books and literature which has been acknowledged in works as varied as Professor Samuel Schoenbaum's 'Shakespeare,a Documentary Life' (Oxford University Press 1974) and Celia Hadden's 'Gifts from your Garden' (Michael Joseph 1985).
He (Oscar the cat) has now retired to Suffolk where,when not posing for the pleasure of his many friends,he demonstrates Wilde's perception that 'in the country people get up early because they have so much to do,and go to bed early because they have so little to think about'.
The introduction of Oscar to Oscar was made by Jacqueline Watson to whom this opuscule is gratefully dedicated.
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