Yeats, W.B.

small 4to (212 x 143mm.), first edition, one of 400 copies, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO EVA DUCAT ("Eva Ducat from WB Yeats | February 1918 at Oxford."),  publisher's device and colophon printed in red, original dark blue paper covered boards, buff linen spine, lettered in black, blue endpapers, collector's blue cloth chemise and matching slipcase, corners of binding slightly bumped, spine label very slightly chipped

The book collector Simon Nowell-Smith, bookplate; his wife Judith Adams Nowell-Smith, bookplate; Bertram Rota Catalogue 300 (2002), Poetry. The Simon Nowell-Smith Collection, item 825

Wade 118; Miller 26

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Eva Ducat, the niece of Charles Baron Clarke (onetime director of Kew Gardens), was the author of Another Way of Music (1928) and acted for some time as Yeats' unofficial musical agent. She was a woman of independent character and was a strong influence on the young George Yeats. She was a lifelong friend of Olivia Shakespear and Edith Ellen Hyde-Lees.