Duodecimo, green cloth with gilt decorative tooling and gilt lettering to top board and gilt lettering to spine. 222pp. Top edge gilt. Fore- and lower edges untrimmed. Cloth worn, with short tears, to head and heel of spine. Spine darkened. Inscriptions to endpaper. Oscar Wilde adopted the name Sebastian Melmoth after his release from prison (Reading Goal). Melmoth was a character from a gothic novel written by Charles Maturin, an ancestor of Wilde. The character Melmoth was a doomed character destined to wander.