Lot 696
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£450
Description
Eight poems; transcribed by Edward Pay. London: Morland Press Ltd. For Form, 1916. First edition, Folio, with red silhouette frontispiece by Austin Spare, original cream printed paper wrappers, uncut, wrappers lightly spotted, and with a little fraying at the edges, loosely inserted in red cloth folding case
Footnote
Note: Wade 114. No. 13 of 122 copies on Italian hand-made paper. The printed slip attached to the titlepage is the variant omitting the word "exact" and with a capital letter to "Proprietors".