In Verse and Prose. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press.
Collected Works In Verse and Prose. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press.
Chapman & Hall, 1908.
First collected edition. Eight volumes. Large 8vo. Publishers' primary (deluxe) binding of quarter vellum over grey cloth boards. Titles stamped in gilt and top edge gilt. Frontispiece portraits of W. B. Yeats by John Sargent, Jack B. Yeats, A. Mancini and Charles Shannon. A near fine set, clean and bright with a little dustiness to the spine of volume II and wear to the cloth of volume VIII.
Selected and arranged by Yeats himself, this Collected Edition was printed in a small print run of only 1060 sets. Yeats was extremely pleased with the production, commenting that "I think nobody of our time has had so fine an edition I believe it will greatly strengthen my position".
Stock ID: 33934
£3,000.00
