containing more than 10 pages of sketches by W.B. Yeats, including portraits, statues, and other studies made whilst studying at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, with 10 pages with autograph notes by W.B. Yeats, in pencil and ink, notably two pages of heavily revised drafts of 22 lines from The Island of Statues, also two fragments of unknown verse (in total six lines), a list of occult books, London addresses, and working notes, the remainder of the volume later filled by J.B. Yeats with about 20 further sketches, mostly portraits, including two of W.B. Yeats, one of Susan Pollexfen, and one possibly of John O'Leary, with an additional leaf from a different sketchbook loosely inserted at the back, altogether 47 pages, oblong 8vo (130 x 185mm), inscribed by W.B. Yeats on the front free endpaper ("W B Yeats | 10 ashfield Terrace | Rathmines"), boards with "Sketch Book" lettered in gilt on the upper cover, c.1884-1888, hinges split, two leaves loose