Cuala Press--Yeats, W.B.

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Description

Poems by William Butler Yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935

4to, one of 35 copies, hand-drawn ornaments and ornaments by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, frontispiece illustration [by Victor Brown] handcoloured and heightened with silver and gold, original light blue wrappers, lollie yeats bookplate, some minor spotting, minor gaps between gatherings at gutter

Provenance

from the library of E.C. Yeats

Literature

Miller p.130; Wade 184

Catalogue Note

elizabeth corbet yeats' own copy of the exceptionally rare privately printed edition, printed by her, of her brother's volume of verse.

Miller notes that thirty copies were privately printed for Eleanor Lady Yarrow. Only one copy has been known at auction in the last thirty years.