The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8): Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. BibliographyYeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8): Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
English literature -- Irish authors
_Discoveries._ ‘The Shanachie,’ October. Reprinted in
_Discoveries_, 1907. Also in the _Collected Works_,
Vol. VIII.
1908.
_A Dream._ (A poem, with a note in prose.) ‘The
Nation,’ July 11.
PART IV.
AMERICAN EDITIONS.
(COMPILED BY JOHN QUINN.)
[1892.]
The | Countess Kathleen | And Various Legends and Lyrics. | By | W. B.
Yeats. | [Quotation, four lines] | Cameo Series | Boston: Roberts Bros.
| London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Identical with English edition except for title-page and publisher’s
name on back of binding and absence of publisher’s device on back cover.
1894.
The | Land of Heart’s Desire | By | W. B. Yeats | [publisher’s
monogram] | Chicago | Stone & Kimball | Caxton Building | MDCCCXCIV
Fcp. 8vo, pp. iv and 46. Grey boards with label. The frontispiece is by
Aubrey Beardsley, the design being the same as that used in the English
edition.
1903. Mosher’s first edition.
The Land of Heart’s Desire | By | W. B. Yeats | O Rose, thou art sick.
| William Blake.
Sm. 4to. This is No. 6 of Vol. IX. of _The Bibelot_, issued in June,
1903. Grey paper cover.
The Land of Heart’s Desire | By W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | Portland
Maine | Privately Printed | MDCCCCIII
Fcp. 8vo, pp. xvi and 32. Japan paper cover.
Only 32 copies were printed, during July, 1903.
The Land of Heart’s | Desire by William | Butler Yeats | [monogram] |
Portland Maine | Thomas B. Mosher | MDCCCCIII
Sm. 8vo, pp. vi and 36. White parchment paper.
Of this first edition 950 copies were printed on Van Gelder paper, 100
on Japan paper and 10 on pure vellum. Published in October, 1903. Later
editions, each consisting of 950 copies on Van Gelder paper, are bound
in grey boards with paper label.
The Celtic Twilight. | Men and Women, Dhouls and | Faeries. | By W. B.
Yeats. | With a frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. | New York: | Macmillan
and Co. | and London. | 1894
English sheets, with new title-page.
1895.
Poems.
Copies of the English edition were imported by Copeland and Day of
Boston, whose name appears on the title-page and binding of all copies.
1897.
The Secret Rose: | By W. B. Yeats, with | Illustrations by J. B.
| Yeats. | [monogram] | New York: Dodd, Mead & Company | London:
Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. | MDCCCXCVII.
These copies for the American market are copies of the first English
edition, with the original title-page torn out after the book was
bound, and the above new title-page pasted in.
1899.
The Wind | Among the Reeds | By | W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | John Lane:
The Bodley Head | New York and London | 1899
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 110. Cloth.
The English edition was printed from duplicate plates and is identical
except for imprint on title-page and the cutting out of copyright
notice and imprint on verso of title-page (p. [iv]) and the imprint at
end (p. [109]).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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