NMLP P-038549 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') · Leonard Smithers, London · 1898
No book-club issue documented. Later-issue tells are explicit and easy to read: Smithers' editions two through seven state their edition number on the reverse of the title page and omit the limitation note; the seventh edition (June 1899) additionally carries '[Oscar Wilde]' in square brackets beneath C.3.3. Any copy naming Wilde on the title page is by definition not the first edition, and the great majority of later reprints carry the revised "seemed light" reading.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038549 for "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde (published as 'C.3.3.') (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038549, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).