THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN AND VARIOUS LEGENDS AND LYRICS.
Yeats, William Butler:

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1892. Parchment and boards, wallet fore-edges, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis by J.T. Nettleship. Spine rather rubbed, darkened and nicked, slight staining to frontis, external surface crack to the lower joint toward toe, else a good copy, internally near fine. With the bookplate of Lily Yeats on the pastedown. Half morocco slipcase. First edition, British trade issue, of Yeats's second book-length collection. One of five hundred copies printed, in addition to thirty copies on Japan vellum, issued in the "Cameo Series." An excellent association copy, inscribed by Yeats to his father, John Butler Yeats: "J.B.Y from W.B.Y. Aug. /92." Formal publication took place in September, and on 2nd September, John Yeats wrote his son from London at length about the reviews that had appeared in the DAILY CHRONICLE and the STAR, the former a critical anonymous notice generally attributed to John Davidson, the latter an enthusiastic review by Richard Le Gallienne -- as J.B.Y. christened them, "the poison and the antidote." In this copy, the Cameo device on the recto of the half-title is approximately 1.2 cm. left of being centered over the letterpress. WADE 6.

(Item ID: WRCLIT61115) $25,000.00

Inscribed to His Father