WILDE

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME

A Study ın duty by Oscar WILDE

with wood-engravings by Dorothea BRABY

London

Quarter bound in publisher’s ivory vellum over burgundy boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, pale blue endpapers. Illustrated with duotone wood engravings by Dorothea Braby. This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder..