DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord (1870-1945, editor). The Spirit Lamp. An Aesthetic, Literary and Critical Magazine, Oxford, June 1893, Vol. IV, No. II, original blue wrappers (defective). FIRST EDITION. RARE.

DOUGLAS, Alfred, Lord (1870-1945, editor).  The Spirit Lamp. An Aesthetic, Literary and Critical Magazine. Oxford: John Thornton, June 1893. Volume IV, No. II. 4to (225 x 178mm). Wood-engraved ornaments, printed on thick paper (some variable spotting, staining and browning). Original blue printed wrappers, uncut (piece torn away from the upper wrapper with loss of a few letters, crudely repaired on verso, about half of the lower wrapper torn away with severe loss of letters, backstrip frayed with some loss, some light staining). The magazine includes the first appearance in print of Oscar Wilde's prose poem "The Disciple", Alfred Douglas's "In Summer" and "Apologia Pro Classe Sua", H. M. Beerbohm's "The Incomparable Beauty of Modern Dress" and John Addington Symonds' "From the Arabic." On page 87, complete with printed "marginalia", appears a "Fragment of last month's Spirit Lamp with marginal comments supposed to have been written by the Editor of the Isis, picked up in the High Street." FIRST EDITION. Mason Bibliography of Oscar Wilde 265 (citing "The Disciple"). RARE.