Yeats, W.B. and Lionel Johnson.

(210 x 141mm.), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY TO LADY GREGORY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("I think some of my part in this | little book the best prose I have | written | WB Yeats 1922") on the preliminary blank,  printed in red and black, original blue-grey paper boards with buff linen spine, lettered in black on upper cover, collector's chemise and blue morocco-backed slipcase, some slight occasional spotting and offsetting

Lady Augusta Gregory, presentation inscription and bookplate

Wade 242

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A MAJOR PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY YEATS TO HIS CLOSEST FRIEND AND COLLABORATOR LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY.

"She brought him far more than the background of 'order and labour' which he craved, and against which much of his finest work would be written. For Gregory's part... the friendship with the dazzling young poet developed into a literary and theatrical collaboration, and launched her on a career of playwriting and theatrical management which put her at the centre of the developing cultural renaissance in Dublin. She was already independently interested in collecting rural folklore and superstitions, and unlike Yeats she spoke Irish. Here too they collaborated, going from cottage to cottage (where the poet's black garb meant he was sometimes mistaken for a proselytizing clergyman). Thirteen years older than Yeats... she had a severe appearance and an imperious manner which concealed a passionate temperament, boundless energy, and tremendous powers of organization and perseverance; she was also capable of a racy and cynical humour" (R.F. Foster, Oxford DNB).