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London, Van Voorst, 1836-1839. . First edition. 2 vols 8vo, compllete with supplement bound at end vol. 1, wood-engraved illustrations, contemporary calf gilt extra, covers with broad gilt borders, spines in 6 compartments, red morocco label to second, numbering roundel to third, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, light fade to spine, a very attractive set. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic work on the fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoologist and one of the original members of the Zoological Society. Yarrell took over his father's bookshop and newsagent but spent his spare time becoming a proficient shooter, angler and collector of specimens. He joined the Royal Institution in 1817, and having published his first zoological work, On the Occurrence of some Rare British Birds, was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1825.

London, Van Voorst, 1845 & 1836. . Second edition of birds, first edition of fishes, together two works in five volumes (3 + 2) 8vo, wood-engraved illustrations throughout, matching (birds green, fishes blue-green) morocco gilt extra, covers with gilt borders, spines in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second and third, others richly gilt within panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, a fine set. A finely bound set of Yarrell's classic works on the birds and fish of Great Britain. Yarrell (1784 – 1856) was a noted English zoologist and one of the original members of the Zoological Society. Yarrell took over his father's bookshop and newsagent but spent his spare time becoming a proficient shooter, angler and collector of specimens. He joined the Royal Institution in 1817, and having published his first zoological work, On the Occurrence of some Rare British Birds, was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1825. Nissen, FBI 133; BBI, 1029; ZBI 4488.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1919. . First Macmillan edition, first impression; 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm); ad. to front blank verso, publisher's device to half-title verso, very slight browning to margins of prelims and final leaves, hinge slightly cracked C8-D1; publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with design by Thomas Sturge Moore, original sand dust-jacket lettered in red, edges uncut, spine slightly faded, otherwise a very handsome copy; [2], ix, [1], 114, [2]pp. Only 1500 of the first impression of this Macmillan edition were printed. The earlier Cuala Press version of this title had notably different contents, and some 17 new poems were added here. The London printing includes, for example, the first book appearence of An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, which remains one of the poet's crowning achievements. A very handsome copy, and rare in the original dust-jacket. Wade 124.

London, Walter Scott, 1888. . First edition, later state; small 8vo (17 x 12.5 cm); 6pp. publisher's ads. to rear; publisher's red cloth, upper cover with design stamped in black, gilt title-piece to spine, spine faded, minor wear to extremities; xviii, [2], 326, [6]pp. The first edition, later state of Yeats' first published work as editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, issued as no. 32 of The Camelot Series. The majority of the tales presented were collected in the nineteenth century by folklorists such as William Allingham, T. Crofton Croker, Douglas Hyde, and Lady Wilde, mother of the playwright Oscar Wilde. Wade 212.

London, Elkin Matthews, 1904. . First published edition; small 8vo (16 x 13 cm); 2pp. ads. to rear, ads. to insider of wrappers, very minor spotting to last leaf; publisher's blue pictorial paper wrappers, lettered in black, publisher's device to lower cover, edges uncut, spine rubbed, edges slightly worn; 60, ivpp. The first published edition of Yeats' The Tables of Law and the Adoration of the Magi, issued as no. 17 in Mathew Elkin's Vigo Cabinet Series. The work had previously appeared in 1897 in a private edition of 110 copies. 'I do not think I should have reprinted them had I not met a young man in Ireland the other day, who liked them very much and nothing else that I have written. W.B. Yeats' (Prefatory Note).Matthew Elkin (d.1921), of The Bodley Head and The Yellow Book fame, was a loyal friend to many of the poets and writers in the Imagist school, regularly counting himself the first publisher of works by Yeats, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Wade 25.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1903. . First American edition; 8vo (20 x 14 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, occasional annotations in pencil, paper browned, hinges cracked, restored with tape, London imprint to final leaf verso; publisher's blue cloth, gilt letter to upper cover and spine, fore-edge uncut, cloth worn, spine caps and corners rubbed; vii, [1], 341, [1]pp. 'I got the title of this book out of one of Blake's MSS. works if I remember rightly. He made a title-page with these words on it but I do not think—no, I know—he never printed the sections. W.B. Yeats. March 8, 1904' (Wade). Only 520 copies of the first American edition of this interesting assortment of essays were printed, all bound with English sheets and bearing the imprint of the London printers Richard Clay & Sons. With provenance for the American literary critic and essayist F.W. Dupee (1904-1979). A committed Marxist, he was the founding editor of The Partisan Review, and taught at… Read More

Florence, Privately printed by Frederic Prokosch, 1935. . First edition thus, number one of 5 copies on Sicily paper, from a total edition of 22, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece, light spotting to prelims; original pictorial wrappers in blue, orange and white, white label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example. Leda and the Swan by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This was the first copy off the press' and initialed it. Wade 185.

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1938. . First edition, one of 450 copies; 8vo; minor age-toning, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine label slightly rubbed costing some letters, cloth slightly marked, some rubbing to extremities, else very good. One of 450 copies, printed at the Cuala Press.The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1919. . First English edition; 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm); publisher's device to half-title verso, erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper, notes in pen to rear free endpaper verso and a few very minor marginal annotations, paper browned; publisher's blue cloth gilt stamped with design by Thomas Sturge Moore, glassine wrapper, fore-edge uncut, spine caps rubbed; vii, [1], 223, [1]pp. The first English edition of Yeats' prose collection, The Cutting of an Agate. 'I wrote the greater number of these essays during the ten years after 1902. During those years I wrote little verse and no prose that did not arise out of some need of the Irish players, or from some thought suggested by their work' (Preface).The contents of the English and American editions are substantially different. Here 'Certain Noble Plays for Japan' is substituted in place of 'Thought on Lady Gregory's Translations'. Wade 126.

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1929. . First edition, one of 425 copies; 8vo; publisher's device to title, minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 425 copies, printed at the Cuala Press, with the date misprinted as 'MCMXXVIV' on the title page (as noted by Wade).The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. Wade 163.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1916. . First trade edition; 8vo; minor age-toning, offsetting to endpapers and half-title, scattered light spotting, top edge partly unopened; publisher's blue cloth, gilt design by T. Sturge Moore, titles and design to spine gilt, spine faded, light rubbing to extremities, else very good. First trade edition, preceded by the first edition published in 1914 by the Cuala Press. This updated Edition has a further nineteen poems from 'The Green Helmet And Other Poems' (1909-12) and 'The Hour-Glass' (1912).

Bryn Mawr, Privately printed by Frederic Prokosch, Christmas 1934. . First edition thus, special copy on blue vellum, from a total edition of 20, Prokosch's own copy with his signed bookplate, also signed by him on the colophon; 12mo; original hand-coloured illustration by Frederic Prokosch signed by him in pencil and mounted as frontispiece, light marginal toning; original green marbled wrappers, silver label to upper cover, with Prokosch's manuscript 'Bibliographical Note' on blue paper, preserved in marbled folding case and quarter morocco slipcase. A fine example. The Singing Head by W.B. Yeats, privately printed and signed by the author Frederic Prokosch. Prokosch has written 'This was the first copy off the press' and initialed it. Wade 180.

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1926. . First edition, one of 300 copies; 8vo; publisher's device in red to title, minor age-toning, offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 300 copies, printed at the Cuala Press.The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1937. . First trade edition, first impression; 8vo; 4 black and white illustrations, including portrait frontispiece, minor age-toning, else unmarked internally; first state binding of black cloth-backed patterned boards, gilt lettering to spine, with the unclipped dustjacket, small repair to head of spine with tape, some creasing to extremities, else very good. First trade edition, revised and expanded after the first edition of 1926 privately printed for subscriber's only.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1933. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth, design and titles to spine gilt, T. Sturge Moore design to upper board in blind, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket replicating the design, a few internal tape repairs, a couple of chips to rear panel, spine slightly toned, else very good. A very good copy of this later work by W.B. Yeats, in the distinctive T. Sturge Moore binding and jacket, notable perhaps for the inclusion of the poem 'Byzantium', Yeats' follow-up to 'Sailing to Byzantium' in this book's sister volume The Tower (1928).

London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. . First edition; small 8vo (18.5 x 12.5 cm); light spotting to endpapers, hinges starting to split but holding; publisher's dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, publisher's device in blind to lower panel, all edges uncut, the first two leaves unopened at the head margin, minor wear to extremities, otherwise a handsome copy; [2], vi, 156pp. The first edition of Yeats' first regularly published work, The Wanderings of Oisin. One of only 500 copies, Yeats later noted that the work 'was published by subscription, John O'Leary [the Fenian and President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood] finding most of the subscribers' (I Became an Author, 1938). Wade 2.

London, A.H. Bullen, 1906; 1909. . Two works; first editions; 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm); dated ownership in pen to front free endpaper of Poems 1899-1905, title in red and black; Second Series with portrait frontispiece; occasional pencil annotations; publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine, edges uncut, minor wear to extremities; xv, [1], 279, [1]; vii, [1], 162, [2]pp. A very handsome set of Yeats' poetical works covering the years 1899 to 1909, with notes by the author. Wade 64.

London, Macmillan, 1933. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's green cloth, Sturge Moore design to upper board in blind, design and titles to spine gilt, with the Sturge Moore dust jacket; a superb copy in the lightly nicked and rubbed dust-jacket with some light internal repair at the spine. A very good copy of this later work by W.B. Yeats, in the distinctive T. Struge Moore binding & jacket, notable perhaps for the inclusion of the poem 'Byzantium', Yeats' follow-up to 'Sailing to Byzantium' in this book's sister volume The Tower (1928). Wade 169.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1921. . First edition, first printing; small 4to; frontispiece and 6 illustrations by Edmund Dulac, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial grey boards, design by Edmund Dulac, paper label to spine printed in black, minor wear to label, some rubbing to corners, else very good. A collection of four plays with designs for the masks and costumes by Edmund Dulac internally and on the boards. Wade 130; Hughey 42c (Dulac).

London, printed at the Caradoc Press...for A.H. Bullen, 1902. . First edition in book form, one of circa 300 copies; 12mo; printed in black & red, title-page and colophon with decorations, bookplate to front pastedown; publisher's roan-backed boards with title printed in gaelic font to upper cover, a little spotted and rubbed; housed in later morocco-backed marbled board solander. A very good example of this uncommon title, decorated, engraved, printed, and bound by H.D & H.G. Webb at the Caradoc Press. The play first appeared in the Irish theatrical periodical, Samhain. Wade 40.