Poems of W.B. Yeats, The

YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]

Published by London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.,, 1949

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The Definitive Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats, One of 350 Sets Signed by the Author YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]. The Poems of W.B. Yeats. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1949. Limited to 375 numbered copies (of which 350 are for sale), signed by the author. Two large octavo volumes (9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 251 x162 mm.). [3, blank], [1, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], 274, [1], [1, printer s imprint]; xii, 306, [1], [1, printer s imprint] pp. "Hand-gravure" frontispiece portrait in each volume (from a drawing by John S. Sargent, R.A., in Volume I and from a painting by Augustus John, O.M., R.A., in Volume II). With tissue guards. Printed on specially made Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid paper. Original olive green buckram over beveled boards. Front covers stamped in gilt with monogram of author s initials inside a circle, spines lettered in gilt within a gilt frame, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine copy with the original glassine wrappers. Housed together in the original brown cardboard slipcase. With the publisher s prospectus laid in. "For some time before his death, W.B. Yeats was engaged in revising the text of this edition of his poems, of which he had corrected the proofs, and for which he had signed the special page to appear at the beginning of Volume I. The outbreak of the Second World War, however, came at a crucial stage in the production of the work, and Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Ltd. had to consider the effects of austere conditions on a publication which had been projected on a lavish scale and which, after the untimely death of this great writer, would have formed a worthy monument to him. It was finally decided that production should be discontinued until after the war, and it is only now, a decade later, that it has become possible to offer the work as it was originally planned" (Prospectus). Wade 209 & 210.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems of W.B. Yeats, The
• Publisher: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.,, 1949
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Irish Literature
  • Poetry
  • Signed Limited Edition