Yeats, W.B.

calligraphic manuscript (157 x 111mm.), prokosch's own copy with his bookplate, "limited to five hand-illustrated copies" (of which this is number 1), with an original drawing drawing by prokosch tipped-in opposite the title (coloured in gold, red, silver, blue and green), initialled "F.P. 1932",  original marbled ochre, silver and gold mabled wrappers

Frederick Prokosch, bookplate

Barker, The Butterfly Books, manuscripts, no. 2

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Also loosely inserted in this copy is an an original sketch by Prokosch, initialled "F.P.", and signed below "Original sketch Frederic Prokosch", together with a "Model Illustration" on the reverse, being an initial version of the main hand-coloured drawing tipped-in opposite the title.

According to the colophon in Prokosch's own hand this manuscript was "Hand-illuminated and hand-bound by me in August 1932 at 349 Fountain Street, New Haven, Connecticut". Prokosch was in New Haven in 1932, but this is apparently one of his forgeries of one of his "earlier" works.

The poem "Symbols" first appeared in Words for Music Perhaps and other Poems on 14 November 1932, and in the December 1932 issue of The Spectator. The other poem "Oil and Blood" first appeared in The Winding Stair (1929),