The Ballad of Reading Gaol. by WILDE, Oscar - 1898: By C.3.3.

London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. One of 30 deluxe copies, hand-numbered in purple ink by Smithers First edition, number 11 of 30 deluxe copies printed on japon, specially bound with vellum spine, and hand-numbered in purple ink by Leonard Smithers. The 30 copies on Japanese vellum were published simultaneously with the paper copies, and priced at one guinea (£1 1s), nearly 20 times the cost of ordinary paper copies at 2s 6d.
Mason notes that all 800 paper copies, together with 20 of the copies on Japanese vellum, were sold out within a few days, and a second edition was published on 24 February.
Wilde published this work under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after his cell in Reading Gaol (cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C). Octavo. Original quarter Japanese vellum, mustard yellow cloth sides, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a purple cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Printed on Japanese vellum. Mild dust-soiling to spine and sides, some bubbling to cloth where it meets the vellum, corners just bumped, sound and clean within, a very good copy. Hayward 312; Mason 372.