Wilde collection sells for €1.25m

A COLLECTION of works by Oscar Wilde made just under €1.25 million at auction yesterday.

An original handwritten chapter of Dublin-born Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray sold for €103,600.

The heavily revised working manuscript of Chapter 16 of the book was one of the rare items of Wilde memorabilia to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London.