Author: YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER.
Title: Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth, and the Trembling of the Veil.
Description: London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926. 1st combined edition.Charles Ricketts binding. Contents: I. Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1914); II.The Trembling of the Veil 1922) - i.Four Years:1887-1891; ii.Ireland after Parnell; iii.Hodos Chameliontos; iv.The Tragic Generation; v.The Stirring of the Bones; Notes - I.The Hermetic Students; II.The Vision of an Archer. Pp.viii/477, portrait frontispiece photogravure + colour tipped-in plate (Memory Harbour painted by Jack B. Yeats) 3 more black & white portrait photogravure plates (all plates with tissue guards), Charles Ricketts "Unicorn" bookplates (a unicorn couching on pearls before a fountain, backed by a cave full of stars, with a hawk contemplating the moon on top of the cave) to front and rear pastedowns. Green cloth with Charles Ricketts blind-stamped decoration to front board, gilt title to spine, slight fading to spine and top front edge. Scarce in this binding. VG.

Keywords: William Butler Yeats Autobiographies Reveries Childhood Youth Trembling Veil Charles Ricketts Binding Unicorn Bookplates Illustrations 51559 General Biography


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