First edition. Octavo. Publisher’s original green cloth, lettered and decorated gilt to the spine and upper cover.
 
A very good copy, repairs to the spine and hinges. Bookplates to front pastedown, front free endpaper recto and verso. Postcard portrait of Wilde (after Spy) to first blank.
 
One of 900 copies of the first edition of Intentions, Wilde’s first published collection of essays. A further 600 copies were published in the US.