Dorian Gray's portrait. Oscar Wilde.

Helsinki. H Schildts Publishing House. 1921. illustrated by Maria Lagorio. 246's. Half-French ribbon with upper gold cut.

“Dorian Gray's Portrait is Oscar Wilde's novel about a beautiful young man who is painted by an artist — and whose portrait ages in his place. An older friend seduces Dorian Gray into following his desires, whatever the consequences may be, for himself or others. Even so, he always escapes unpunished. His painted portraits, by contrast, are becoming increasingly disfigured. Finally, Dorian Gray can't stand it anymore.

Dorian Gray's portrait, the dandynovel of the dandynovels, is a story whose main character has come to denote phenomena far beyond the bounds of literature, and even given names to a disease diagnosis.

One of English literature's greatest classics, in Swedish translation by Nils Selander.“

“Maria Lagorio studied in Munich and Weimar 1910 and at the Academy in St. Petersburg under Bilibin and Lanceray. She was a member of the Mir Iskusstva since 1915. She made illustrations for the journal Stolitsa in Usadba (1913-1917). In 1918 she departed for Finland. In 1920 she married the artist Nikolai Istselenov and in 1923 they emigrated to Munich and in 1924 to Prague. Both artist illustrated books for the Trirema Verlag in Berlin, a publishing firm they founded and headed together. In September 1925, the artists and their son moved to Paris. In 1928 they both started working as designers for the Iusupov porcelain factory in Paris. Lagorio died in the Russian old people's home in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris.“.