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A vision : an explanation of life founded upon the writings of Giraldus and upon certain doctrines attributed to Kusta ben Luka / by William Butler Yeats.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 Y3452 925v
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism.
- Astrology.
- Penn Provenance:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 256 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by The Dunedin Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1925.
- Contents:
- Dedication
- Introduction by Owen Aherne
- Book I. What the Caliph Partly Learned
- Book II. What the Caliph Refused to Learn
- Book III. Dove or Swan
- Book IV. The Gates of Pluto.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "This edition consists of six hundred copies numbered and signed."
- Illustrations include a "woodcut portrait of Giraldus, printed on brown paper; woodcut design 'The Great Wheel' printed on brown paper facing p. xv; small woodcut design of unicorn printed on brown paper and pasted on at foot of p. 8. [These are by Edmund Dulac.]."--Cf. Wade.
- Issued in pale blue paper boards with parchment half-binding. White paper label printed in brown on spine. Pale blue endpapers. All edges untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 248 signed by W. B. Yeats.
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- Culture Class Collection copy has grey wrapper with paper label on spine printed in brown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has advertising leaflet for "A Comedy Royal in Four Acts" by Eden Phillpotts ([4] p.) laid in.
- OCLC:
- 2271968
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