London: Leonard Smithers, 1898

8vo, pp. 31, printed on rectos only. Original three-quarter light brown boards, lettered in gilt to (darkened) cream spine. Uncut and partly unopened. Offsetting to endpapers, spine darkened, a small dink to the upper and lower edges of rear board probably caused by being bound in to a parcel of books at some stage. A better than very good copy.

Fourth edition. All previous editions were published this same year: the book quickly became a bestseller.

Wilde is still identified here as 'C.3.3.', his prison identification number. His name did not appear on any of the first six editions. The poem is dedicated to 'C.T.W'.: in 1896 Charles Thomas Wooldridge was executed at Reading gaol in (where Wilde was also imprisoned) for the murder of his wife.