WILDE (Oscar). Ballade de la geôle de Reading. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1918. In-8, midnight blue morocco, decorated with recessed compartments forming a window revealing a starry blue box sky, boards entirely decorated with a grid of cold-stamped fillets, smooth spine decorated in the same way, blue box title page, midnight blue morocco lining and endpapers, first endpaper entirely painted by Daragnès, edges gilt on witnesses, cover and spine, folder and slipcase (Paul Bonet 1940). First illustrated edition, decorated with 25 original woodcuts in two tones by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Translation and preface by Henry Davray. Unique copy of Jean-Gabriel Daragnès on chine, containing a suite of compositions on chine signed, and enriched with 34 original pencil drawings in the text, completing the illustration of the work. Complete with a subscription leaf and a three-page test print, including the title page, bound in fine. Beautiful binding signed by Paul Bonet, painted by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès. Binding edges slightly rubbed. Carteret IV, p. 408 - Mahé II, p. 725. - Monod 11507.