Reveries Over Childhood and Youth [with:] Plates to Accompany Reveries Over Childhood and Youth

  • SIGNED Woodcut title device and one other decoration by Sturge Moore. Text printed in red and black. [viii], 127, [1] pp. Portfolio of
  • Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1915
By Yeats, William Butler
Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1915. First edition, one of 425 copies. Woodcut title device and one other decoration by Sturge Moore. Text printed in red and black. [viii], 127, [1] pp. Portfolio of 3 plates with letterpress leaf. 2 vols. 8vo. Original grey boards lettered in black, tan linen spine. Galwey & Co. binder's ticket. Near fine copy (slight toning to spine as usual, small scuff at head; some edge wear to mount of Memory Harbour). First edition, one of 425 copies. Woodcut title device and one other decoration by Sturge Moore. Text printed in red and black. [viii], 127, [1] pp. Portfolio of 3 plates with letterpress leaf. 2 vols. 8vo. As noted by Wade, "the book was accompanied by a portfolio... containing portraits of John Butler Yeats from a water-colour by himself, of Mrs Yeats from a drawing by J. B. Yeats made in 1867, and Memory Harbour by Jack B. Yeats, a print in colours on a black mount; and a note... signed [in type] W. B. Y." The portfolio, often lacking, is present here. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books 23, p. 240; Wade 111; Miller 23

Details

Title

Reveries Over Childhood and Youth [with:] Plates to Accompany Reveries Over Childhood and Youth

Author

Yeats, William Butler

Binding

Woodcut title device and one other decoration by Sturge Moore. Text printed in red and black. [viii], 127, [1] pp. Portfolio of

Condition

Near Fine

Publisher

The Cuala Press: Dublin

Date

1915

Edition

First edition, one of 425 copies


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