Author: Wilde, Oscar, Castle, Sally, Seeney, Michael
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900  
Published 21/10/2021 by Two Rivers Press in the United Kingdom 
Paperback | 76 pages, Hand lettered
Sally Castle’s beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince sets the story among Reading’s parks, squares, rooflines and churches – the town that’s shaped her and her artwork and where Oscar spent an unhappy period in gaol. This enchanting combination of fairy story with concrete urban reality, a tale of sacrificial love written with a flourish and swirl, turns a simple book into a gem as precious as the large red ruby that glowed on the Prince’s sword-hilt.
With an introduction by Michael Seeney, author and collector of Wilde’s work.