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Reveries over childhood and youth / by William Butler Yeats.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 Y3452 915r v.1 [i.e. text]-v.2 [i.e. plates]
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Childhood and youth.
- Yeats, W. B.
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Poets, Irish--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, Irish.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 127 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Churchtown, Dundrum : The Cuala Press, MCMXV [1915]
- Notes:
- Preliminary pages have dedication in red (p. [6]), woodcut in red of candle among waves (p. [7]) by Sturge Moore, preface (p. [10], dated Christmas Day, 1914) and notice of limitation printed in red.
- "Four hundred and twenty-five copies of this book have been printed."
- T.p. has woodcut of leaping unicorn 'Monoceros de Astris' by Sturge Moore.
- "Here ends 'Reveries over Childhood and Youth' ... Printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth C. Yeats, at The Cuala Pres, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on All Hallows' Eve in the year nineteen hundred & fifteen."
- "This book was accompanied by a portfolio ... lettered on front cover 'Plates to accompany Reveries over childhood and youth' by W. B. Yeats ... containing portraits of John Butler Yeats from a water-colour drawing by himself, of Mrs. Yeats from a drawing by J. B. Yeats made in 1867, and 'Memory Harbour' by Jack B. Yeats, a print in colors on a black mount; and a note, 'Memory Harbour,' printed on one side of a single sheet signed W.B.Y."--Cf. Wade,
- V. 1 issued in grey paper boards with white linen spine; lettered in black on front cover. No label on spine. Grey endpapers.
- V. 2 issued in blue paper boards lined blue with white linen spine, lettered on black on front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 270.
- Culture Class Collection copy has binder's ticket "Bound by Galwey & Co., Eustace St., Dublin" on front pastedown of v. 1.
- Culture Class Collection copy has review 'Mr. Yeats Revises' cut from newspaper laid in v. 2.
- Cited in:
- Wade, A. Bibl. of the writings of W. B. Yeats (3rd ed.), 111
- Contains:
- Plates to accompany Reveries over childhood and youth.
- OCLC:
- 4753083
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