first edition Hardcover
1894 · London & New York
by Yeats, William Butler
London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Dodd, Mead & Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. polished brown cloth, slight beveled edges, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 136 pages. 16.5 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed for England (of which 400 hundred are for sale) and 150 copies printed for America. WADE 294. 15 pages of adverts at rear. All the contributors in the first book are here again with the addition of Arthur Hillier, and as in the first book,Yeats contributes six poems. Small bookseller label of Angus & Robertson, Sydney. Owner inscription free front endpaper, small portion above (truncated)