The wind among the reeds / by W. B. Yeats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Contributor:

Gyles, Althea, 1868-1949.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Hastings, William Howitt (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 108 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W., 1899.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Some copies, but not the earliest issued, of the first edition contain a slip, printed on smooth paper and headed 'Errors'. It sets out the following seven errors: page 13, line 5 for 'Erie' read 'Eire'; page 18, line 6 for 'prayers' read 'prayer'; page 31, line 3 for 'He' read 'him'; page 43, line 9 for 'head' read 'breast', for 'on' read 'by'; page 49 after line 4 insert 'by a gray shore where the wind never blew'; page 93, line 12 for 'night' read 'light'; page 96, line 18 take out comma after 'Misroide' and for 'son' read 'sow'."--Cf. Wade.

Issued in dark blue cloth with design by Althea Gyles stamped in gold on front cover, spine and back cover. All edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy contains seven errors listed above and no "Error" slip.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate and autograph of William Howitt Hastings, Cambridge, July 1899.

Cited in:

Wade, A. Bibl. of the writings of W. B. Yeats (3rd ed.), 27

OCLC:

3132722