Poems of W.B. Yeats
- SIGNED
- London: Macmillan and Co, 1949
London: Macmillan and Co, 1949. Full Description:
YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]. The Poems of W.B. Yeats. London: Macmillan and Co., 1949.
Limited to 375 numbered copies (of which 350 are for sale), signed by the author. This being number 73. Two large octavo volumes (10 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 160 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. With publisher's prospectus laid in.
Original olive green buckram over bevelled boards. Front board 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. In original glassine. Some very light foxing to endpapers and prospectus. Prospectus with some ink notes to front page. A fine copy. Housed together in the original brown cardboard slipcase.
"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" (from the Prospectus for this work).
Wade 209-210.
HBS 69483.
$4,250.
YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]. The Poems of W.B. Yeats. London: Macmillan and Co., 1949.
Limited to 375 numbered copies (of which 350 are for sale), signed by the author. This being number 73. Two large octavo volumes (10 x 6 1/4 inches; 250 x 160 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. With publisher's prospectus laid in.
Original olive green buckram over bevelled boards. Front board 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. In original glassine. Some very light foxing to endpapers and prospectus. Prospectus with some ink notes to front page. A fine copy. Housed together in the original brown cardboard slipcase.
"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" (from the Prospectus for this work).
Wade 209-210.
HBS 69483.
$4,250.
Details
Title
Poems of W.B. Yeats
Author
YEATS, William Butler
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Macmillan and Co: London
Date
1949