The Poems

London: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Limited edition, number 116 of 375 copies published posthumously, though with pages signed by the poet before his death. Photogravure portrait frontispieces of Yeats by Emery Walker after John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, with tissue guards. [3, blank], [1, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], 274, [1], [1, printer's imprint]; xii, 306, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Olive green buckram over bevelled boards, 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. Lightest spotting to edges, otherwise fine in near fine publisher's brown paper slipcase. Limited edition, number 116 of 375 copies published posthumously, though with pages signed by the poet before his death. Photogravure portrait frontispieces of Yeats by Emery Walker after John Singer Sargent and Augustus John, with tissue guards. [3, blank], [1, limitation leaf], ix, [1, blank], 274, [1], [1, printer's imprint]; xii, 306, [1], [1, printer's imprint] pp. 2 vols. Tall 8vo. Yeats's complete poetical output, and a variorum of the his textual changes, personally overseen by Yeats's widow, Georgie.