The Collected Works in Verse And Prose.

First Collected Edition. First Issue Binding. This marvellous piece of publishing coincides with that transitional period in Yeats’s development as a writer when the early project is more or less complete and before the finding of his later voice. This set then neatly collects the first canon in a decidedly well printed edition. Sales were slow and perhaps as much as half the edition were later issued in a secondary, cheaper cloth binding. Sets like ours in the primary quarter vellum binding and in nice condition are uncommon.

8 volumes, 8vo. Original quarter vellum, grey cloth boards, titles to upper boards and spines gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Frontis portrait to first volume. Some typical spotting to endpapers and fore edges, boards gently bowed, a couple of hinges a trifle strained as often, slight marking to covers, spine ends a little creased on volumes 4 and 8. A very good set.