Hrag Vartanian

Even at his impoverished death, Wilde had more than 300 books with him, including:
-a Huysmans or two,
-publications that dealt with prison life,
-works by Tolstoy,
-Arthur Morrison’s "A Child of the Jago" (1896),
-Beatrice Harraden’s "Hilda Strafford" & "Remittance Man" (1897),
-volumes by American writers, incl. Harold Frederic,
-"Sententiæ Artis" (1886) by Harry Quilter…"It is evident that Wilde treated his copy of Sententiæ Artis…with some contempt. This piece of hack art-criticism took a bruising when Wilde was drafting his vitriolic review of it for the Pall Mall Gazette, and…Wilde’s copy…has a badly cracked spine & bumped corners.'"
-W. H. Mallock’s satire on modern intellectual fads, "The New Republic" (1877),

As an aside, it is sad to note that Wilde’s bankruptcy sale, which took place at his home a month before he was sentenced to 2 yrs in jail, comprised 114 lots of personal books, some art & furniture, and drew crowds of bargain-hunters. The sale made only £600.