The secret rose / by W. B. Yeats ; with illustrations by J. B. Yeats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922, illustrator.

Gyles, Althea, 1868-1949, Binding designer.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1897.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. ; London : Lawrence & Bullen, 1897.

Contents:

The binding of the hair

The wisdom of the king

Where there is nothing, there is God

The crucifixion of the outcast

Out of the rose

The curse of the fires and of the shadows

The heart of the spring

Of Costello, the Proud, of Oona the daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter tongue

The book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red

The twisting of the rope and Hanrahan the Red

Kathleen the daughter of Hoolihan and Hanrahan the Red

The curse of Hanrahan the Red

The vision of Hanrahan the Red

The death of Hanrahan the Red

The rose of shadow

The old men of the twilight

Rosa alchemica.

Notes:

The greater number of these stories have appeared in either the New review, the Sketch, the National observer, or the Savoy.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth, stamped in gilt. Front cover illustration of a rose bush in the style of a Celtic knot, designed by Althea Gyles.

Cited in:

Wade, A.A bibliography of the writings of W.B. Yeats. 1968, 22

Contains:

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922, illustrator.

OCLC:

6083069