Editing 25 Apr 1895 - The Globe (London) (section)

==<center>SALE OF WILDE'S EFFECTS</center>==
There was a very mixed crowd preset at 16, Tite-street, Chelsea, yesterday, when the sale of Oscar Wilde's effects took place under a Sheriff's order. For a time the street was partially blocked by four-wheeled cabs and hansoms, but there were few private carriages to be seen, and the rough element was by no means conspicuous by its absence, the auctioneer having on more than one occasion to call attention to the fact that the language indulged in was not suited to the ears of the ladies present. The sale took place in the dining room on the first floor, overlooking Tite-street, and this during the whole of the afternoon was inconveniently crowded. Those unable to gain admission wandered into the few other rooms which remained open, one of them being the nursery, where some children's toys lay scattered upon the floor. First on the catalogue were the books in the library, numbering many hundreds, and many of these went for small amounts, though upon others a price far above their intrinsic value was realized. The collection included a very large number of French works, these being sold in parcels of 40 and 50 volumes, and going for prices averaging from 10s. to 25s. Rosetti's works fetched ₤2 13s.; Shelley's Selected Poems (27 volumes), only 12s; Dumas' works (23 volumes), 11s.; and Zola's works (23 volumes), 10s. Swinburne's works, in 14 volumes, realized ₤4 15s.; and a collection of Tennyson's, with autograph attached, ₤2. Some manuscript and type-written copy of "A Woman of No Importance" fetched ₤5 15s. Following the books came the pictures, and among these a subject attributed to Mr. Whistler realised 20gs. Carlyle's writing table of antique mahogany was sold for 14 gs.