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
Later American editions have separate copyright notice on verso of
title-page dated 1905 but are printed from the same plates and contain
no additional lines.
1901.
The Shadowy Waters | By | W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | New York | Dodd,
Mead and Company | 1901
Cr. 4to, pp. 62. Grey boards with side label.
1902.
Where There is | Nothing | A Drama | In Five Acts | By | W. B. Yeats;
John Lane | MCMII
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 100. Issued in grey paper cover, the first page
printed from the types of the title-page.
Fifteen copies printed for copyright of which not over eight are now
known. Printed for Mr. John Quinn from the author’s first draft and
contains some errors corrected in the large-paper edition.
1902. Second Edition.
Printed for Mr. John Quinn from the same types as the preceding, but
without the publisher’s name on title-page and without imprint on verso
of title-page below copyright, and with some errors corrected. On the
reverse of the half-title is the notice “Thirty copies printed | from
the type, of which | this is No.________”
Large-paper copies (9-9/16ths by 5-7/16ths inches). Pale green boards
with labels on front and back.
These two editions contain a dedication to Lady Gregory, dated
September 19, 1902, which does not appear in any subsequent edition.
1903. Third Edition.
Where There is | Nothing | Being Volume One of Plays for | an Irish
Theatre | By | W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company |
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1903 | All rights reserved
Globe 8vo, pp. 216. Cloth.
This edition was considerably revised and contains some new passages.
The new dedication to Lady Gregory is dated February, 1903.
Also a large-paper edition, printed on Japan paper, and limited to 100
copies.
The Celtic Twilight. Revised and enlarged edition of 1902.
The English sheets were imported and bound in America, back of cover
being lettered “The Celtic | Twilight | W. B. Yeats. | The Macmillan |
Company”
1903.
Ideas of Good and | Evil. By W. B. Yeats | The Macmillan Company | New
York. MCMIII
English sheets with new title-page as above.
In the Seven Woods | Being Poems Chiefly of the | Irish Heroic Age | By
| W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company | London: Macmillan &
Co., Ltd. | 1903 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. vi and 90. Cloth.
1904.
The Hour-Glass | And Other Plays | Being Volume Two of Plays for | An
Irish Theatre | By | W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company |
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1904 | All rights reserved
Globe 8vo, pp. viii and 116. Cloth.[L]
Also a large-paper edition, limited to 100 copies.
These American editions do not contain the bars of music or the “Note
on the Music” of the English edition.
The King’s Threshold | A Play in Verse | By | W. B. Yeats | New York |
Printed for Private Circulation | 1904
Medium 8vo, pp. x and 58. Grey boards.
Printed on cream-coloured old hand-made Italian paper, 100 copies only,
for Mr. John Quinn.
1906.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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