Bonhams: Oscar Wilde. The Collection of Jeremy Mason, 32340, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 18, 2026 - February 18, 2026

Page Size: 156 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
26	WILDE - LECTURE PROGRAMMES	A group of lecture programmes and related material, 1882-1886	1882-1886	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,200.00
27	WILDE - SHEET MUSIC	Oscar Wilde. Forget-Me-Not [Composed by Miss Amy Henry], 1880s; and others	1880s; and others	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 704.00
28	WILDE - NEWSPAPERS	Collection of Canadian newspapers featuring reports of Oscar Wilde's North American lecture tour, 1882-1900	1882-1900	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 384.00
29	WILDE - CARICATURES AND EPHEMERA	A group of caricatures and ephemera relating to Wilde's tour of America in 1882	1882	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,048.00
30	AMERICAN TOUR - ADVERTISING EPHEMERA	A collection of approximately 60 pictorial trade cards, or printed ephemera influenced by Wilde, and the "Aesthetic" movement, [c.1882]	[c.1882]	GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 8,320.00
31	TITE STREET - NEW YEAR'S CARD	The Wilde's New Year Card, c.1884/5; and cut signature of Constance	c.1884/5	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 5,760.00
32	WILDE - VANITY FAIR	'Oscar', [1884]	[1884]	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 512.00
33	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Henriette Corkran, [November 1886]	[November 1886]	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 5,376.00
34	WILDE'S COPY	ABBEY (HENRY) The Poems... New, Enlarged Edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO WILDE, 1886	1886	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,816.00
35	WILDE'S COPY	QUILTER (HARRY) Sententiae Artis, OSCAR WILDE'S ANNOTATED COPY, Isbister Limited, 1886; with two issues of the Pall Mall Gazette	1886	GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	GBP 32,000.00
36	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter to 'Violet Fane', on vegetarianism, [November 1887]	[November 1887]	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	GBP 44,800.00
37	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Anne Wakefield Richardson, [1887]	[1887]	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 6,400.00
38	WILDE (OSCAR, editor)	The Woman's World, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Cassell, 1888-1890	1888-1890	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,920.00
39	WILDE - MAGAZINES AND MISCELLANY	Punch or the London Charivari, 1881-1895; and others	1881-1895; and others	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 486.40
40	WILDE (OSCAR)	The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], David Nutt, 1888	1888	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,864.00
41	WILDE (OSCAR)	The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], David Nutt, 1888	1888	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 1,792.00
42	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Theodore Watts Dunton, [n.d. but ?October 1888]	N/A	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 17,920.00
43	WILDE (OSCAR)	Series of five autograph letters signed to J. Graham Hill, [1888 and 1891]	[1888 and 1891]	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 57,550.00
44	WILDE (CONSTANCE)	There Was Once. Grandma's Stories, 1888; and other children's books by Constance and Lord Douglas	1888	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 576.00
45	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Douglas Sladen, [December 1888]	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 28,160.00
46	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Henrietta Barnett, [?November 1889]	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 7,040.00
47	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to Henry Lucy, [July 1889]	N/A	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 5,760.00
48	WILDE (OSCAR)	Autograph letter signed to an unknown correspondent, [dated "15/5/91" in another hand]	N/A	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 19,200.00
49	WILDE (OSCAR)	The Picture of Dorian Gray, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, TRIAL BINDING, STUART MASON'S ANNOTATED COPY, [1891]	[1891]	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 25,600.00
50	WILDE (OSCAR)	The Picture of Dorian Gray, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 24 OF 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Ward and Lock, 1891	1891	GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00	GBP 23,040.00

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.