The Ballad of Reading Gaol
By: By C. 3. 3. [Oscar Wilde]
Edition: Pirated Edition
Publisher: Leonard Smithers
Published: 1899
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 76
Copyright date: February 1898
Description: One of several unauthorized printings of the 7th ed. Cf. Mason, S. Wilde, p. 423-424 and 531-532.

In one printing, the author's name is absent from the spine and the type used for the "3" in "C.3.3" on the t.p. is rounded, with the base of the "3" level with the base of the "C". In another printing, a different type is used throughout, the author's name appears on the spine and the type used for the "3" on the t.p. is elongated with its base extending below the base of the "C."

HRC has copies of both printings described.
Notes: Octavo. Pp. viii+31. Printed on one side of leaf throughout.