TRANCART YannickMareMagnum
YEATS William ButlerMareMagnum
Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. [Illustrated by J.B. Yeats. First Combined Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN THE RICKETTS BINDING
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), a mounted coloured plate, 3 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and pictorial endpapers, preliminaries very lightly spotted, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. This combined edition collects Reveries (1916) and The Trembling of the Veil (1922) with illustrations by Yeats' father Jack Butler Yeats. The binding design is by Charles Ricketts complete with Unicorn 'bookplate' on paste-downs. This work forms the sixth volume of Macmillan's 'Collected Edition of the Works' but is complete in itself. Wade records that 2820 copies were printed. Wade 151.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB147,85 €
