Poems By W. B. Yeats [Later Edition Full Gilt Althea Gyles Decorated Cloth Binding]

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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913, Later Edition. Original blue cloth boards with Althea Gyles gilt tooled decorations to the front and rear, gilt title and decoration to the spine, tissue guarded frontispiece W. B. Yeats , fore edges uncut. With a new preface by Yeats, who further rearranged the contents. Photograph of Yeats cut out of a magazine, stuck to the front end paper. William Butler Yeats (1865 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. xv, [i], 314pp. Provenance: ink signature for Joan S. A. Hangood Ash to the front, blind stamped Simms 12 George Street Bath to the front end paper. Approximately 8 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, gilt decoration, worn top and tail. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards good condition gilt tooled pattern to the front which covers the whole board, gilt tooled centrepiece to the rear. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, others tanned with some foxing. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition intact. Paste downs good condition plain with some minor foxing. End papers good condition plain, lightly tanned with some foxing, the front end paper has the date Christmas 1922. Title good condition red and black text, lightly tanned with some minor foxing. Pages good condition tissue guarded frontispiece W. B. Yeats , lightly tanned with some minor foxing throughout. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1912 Binding: Hardback.

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Título

Poems By W. B. Yeats [Later Edition Full Gilt Althea Gyles Decorated Cloth Binding]

Editor

London: T. Fisher Unwin.

Fecha de publicación

1913

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Good