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57 S. 7 gro�form. + diverse kleinere Abb. unbeschnittenes Ex. SU am Buchr�cken gerissen u. insgesamt gebr�unt. Das Buch selbst befindet sich dagegen in einem sehr guten Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420 gebundene Ausgabe, Halbleinen, SU. This Edition is limited to 450 numbered copies of which this is no. 283.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛdɪŋ dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, he witnessed the events leading up to the hanging of Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, for the murder of his wife; these events inspired the poem.