Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Title: Randarabesken zu Oskar Wilde, Bonn, Oktober 1903 [untitled essay-introduction to FPG's translations of "Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H." &  "Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen", pp.i-l =1-50] / Felix Paul Greve. --

Published: Minden in Westf. : J.C.C. Bruns, 1903.

Description: [i]-l [= Roman numeral for 50], 136 p. ; 19 cm. --

Notes: On spine: "O. Wilde / Erzahlungen / Minden i. W. / J.C.C. Bruns'/ Verlag." --

Half-title reads: "Oscar Wilde / Erzählungen." --

This is obviously one of the cheaper "broschiert" or stapled rather than sewn copies, bound in drab laminated grey linen with black print.

Contents:
Bruns advertisement of:
  - Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray [tr., F. P. Greve, 1902], Preis broschiert Mk. 3.50, gebunden Mk. 4.50. --
  - Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde [tr., F. P. Greve], Preis 1 Mark. --
  - Fingerzeige [tr., F. P. Greve], brosch 3 Mk, geb. 4 Mk
[lists "Inhalt", which corresponds to RBR's 1922 copy of this book]. --
  - Oscar Wilde: die Geschichte einer unglucklichen Freundschaft / von Robert Harborough Sherard ; Deutsch von Hermann Freiherr von Teschenberg. Preis brosch. 3 Mk., geb. 4 Mk. --

Text:
[Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde, a 50-p. untitled introductory essay by FPG].
Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H., p. [5]-64. --
Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen : eine Studie uber die Pflicht, p.[67]-136.

Annotation: That Greve's untitled, but signed introduction ["Bonn, Oktober 1903"] to the two O. Wilde translations "Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H." [pp.5-64] & "Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen" [pp.67-136] actually IS his otherwise elusive publication "Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde" becomes apparent in the preliminary pages of the present book: there, underneath Bruns publishers' advertisement for Greve's separately published & fully titled essay, the following text is printed:
"Der ganze Zauber von Wildes blendender Personlichkeit weht durch diese von dithyrambischem Schwunge erfüllten Impromptus, die zugleich die Einleitung zu dem vorliegenden Buche bilden." --
In October 1903, Greve was serving a year in Bonn prison for having defrauded his friend Herman [sic!] Kilian.

Local Note: Introduction is the [here untitled] Essay "Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde " by F.P. Greve. -- This "Preface" is dated "Bonn, Okt. 1903."

Other Titles:
Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1909. Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde, October 1903.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Lord Arthur Savile's crime. German
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The portrait of Mr. W. H. German