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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, 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.

Dundrum, The Dun Emer Press, 1904. . First edition, one of 500 copies; 8vo; woodcut to contents page, minor age-toning, slight 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, corners slightly bumped, else very good. One of 500 copies, published by Yeats' sister, Elizabeth Corbet, at the Dun Emer Press, the precursor to the Cuala Press. Featuring the first drawing by Robert Gregory used by the press, 'showing the four aces of a pack of playing-cards spread over the four provinces of Ireland - the four green fields of Irish folklore.' (Genet, p62)

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, Macmillan and Co., 1928. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor spotting to prelims, slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth with elaborate art deco design by T. Sturge Moore, lettered and stamped in gilt, minor oxidisation to gilt design, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket replicating the design, spine darkened, a couple of old internal tape repairs to top edge of front panel and spine ends, else very good. Important collection of Yeats' poetry containing poems such as 'Sailing To Byzantium' and 'Leda and the Swan'.

Dublin, The Cuala Press, [1938]. . Second edition; 4to; some age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's blue wrappers with design by Jack B. Yeats, slight toning to edges, minor edge-wear, else near-fine. Second edition, preceded by an extremely limited first edition, of which most copies were destroyed by the poet's wife.

Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1906]. . First edition, first issue; 8vo; frontispiece and title vignette by A.S. Hartrick, colour plates by Jessie M. King, ownership signature to front free endpaper, scattered light foxing, offsetting to endpapers; publisher's plum cloth gilt, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, spine slightly sunned, light rubbing to extremities, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, else very good. The scarce first issue, preceding the Caxton Publishing Company edition which was published the same year.

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.

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, Walter Scott, [1889]. . First edition, later state; small 8vo (17 x 12.5 cm); old bookseller's label to front pastedown, 6pp. publisher's ads. to rear; publisher's red cloth, upper cover with design stamped in black, gilt title-piece to spine, spine faded, head and tail caps slightly rubbed, lower right corner of upper cover slightly cockled; xvii, [3], 302, [6]pp. The first edition, later state of this collection of stories by the Irish novelist William Carleton (d.1869), with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. Issued as no. 48 in The Camelot Series.'I thought no end of Carleton in those days & would still I dare say if I had not forgotten him. W.B. Yeats, 1904' (Wade). Wade 214.

October 1901. . Pencil portrait on paper, signed and dated by the artist; unframed, 215 x 165 mm. A fine pencil portrait of a young W.B. Yeats by the artist Pamela Colman Smith, dated October 1901 and signed with her characteristic cipher.Already with two published collections of Jamaican folk stories and four years of study at the Pratt Art Institute under her belt, the young Pamela Colman Smith could not be accused of lacking in motivation. Some of her earliest published artwork appears in Bram Stoker's souvenir volume for the Lyceum Theatre company's tour of North America in 1899, and it was to Henry Irving and Stoker that she hopefully presented her stage designs when she returned to England, the country of her birth, in 1900.Although this precocious approach came to little, aside from a lasting friendship with Ellen Terry and her daughter Edith Craig, from whom perhaps she acquired the nickname 'Pixie', this did little to dampen her spirits. Colman Smith turned next to William Butler Yeats… Read More

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).

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, 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.

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.

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.

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).

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, 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.