Front page of the ‘Tite Street Catalogue’. (Reproduced by kind permission of Julia Rosenthal)
Annotations in Wilde’s copy of Aristophanes’s Nubes (The Clouds). (Sotheby’s)
Speranza painted by J. St. C. Liddell. (© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved)
Wilde’s father, aged around fifty. (Merlin Holland)
Wilde’s copy of The Iliad of Homer. (Julia Rosenthal)
Wilde’s Trinity College Notebooks. (William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles)
An undergraduate’s room at Magdalen in the late nineteenth century. (Julia Rosenthal)
‘Hermes with the Infant Dionysus’ by Praxiteles. (Author’s Photograph)
Wilde reclining with a book. (Merlin Holland)
Aubrey Beardsley’s portrait of Mrs Patrick Campbell. (Julia Rosenthal)
Robbie Ross in his early twenties. (Robert Robertson)
Inscription in Robbie Ross’s copy of Earnest. (Merlin Holland)
Inscription in Speranza’s copy of A Woman of No Importance. (Sotheby’s)
Aubrey Beardsley’s caricature ‘Oscar Wilde At Work’. (Merlin Holland)
Front cover of The Illustrated Police News, May 4, 1895. (© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved)
The Hôtel de la Plage, Berneval. (Merlin Holland)
Wilde’s Brentano’s book bill, December 3, 1900. (William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles)
Wilde in Rome in 1900. (Merlin Holland)
The Hôtel d’Alsace in the early twentieth century. (Merlin Holland)
Every effort has been made by the author and publishers to trace the holders of copyrights in quotations and illustrations. Any inadvertent mistakes or omissions can be rectified in future editions.