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YEATS, W. B. (1865-1939). The Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. 8 volumes, 8°. Portrait frontispieces by Sargent (vol. 1), Shannon (vol. 3), Mancini (vol. 5) and J. B. Yeats (vol. 7). Remainder binding of grey paper boards with green cloth spines (discoloured), yellow ribbon bookmarks, some perished. Former owner's name erased from endpaper of vol. 1, leaving 'Ex Libris' in ink. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, printed by A. H. Bullen and published when Yeats was only 43. Wade 75-82.
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. W. B. YEATS (1865-1939) According to Miranda Seymour, Ottoline Morrell considered W. B. Yeats to be the only genius among her friends apart from Bertrand Russell. Like Morrell, he considered Shelley's romanticism the essence of poetry, and his combination of mysticism and political radicalism inevitably appealed strongly to her. She treated him reverentially, and his Nobel Prize of 1923 gave him all the more social cachet, yet in 1937 she broke off all contact with him, after he praised Walter Turner, who had satirized her a decade before in The Aesthetes. He had been probably the most important of all the poets among her friends.
YEATS, W. B. (1865-1939). The Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. 8 volumes, 8°. Portrait frontispieces by Sargent (vol. 1), Shannon (vol. 3), Mancini (vol. 5) and J. B. Yeats (vol. 7). Remainder binding of grey paper boards with green cloth spines (discoloured), yellow ribbon bookmarks, some perished. Former owner's name erased from endpaper of vol. 1, leaving 'Ex Libris' in ink. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, printed by A. H. Bullen and published when Yeats was only 43. Wade 75-82.

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YEATS, W. B. (1865-1939). The Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. 8 volumes, 8°. Portrait frontispieces by Sargent (vol. 1), Shannon (vol. 3), Mancini (vol. 5) and J. B. Yeats (vol. 7). Remainder binding of grey paper boards with green cloth spines (discoloured), yellow ribbon bookmarks, some perished. Former owner's name erased from endpaper of vol. 1, leaving 'Ex Libris' in ink. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, printed by A. H. Bullen and published when Yeats was only 43. Wade 75-82.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE OF VOLUME ONE. 'Bullen treated the living Yeats as if he were a dead Elizabethan writer and arbitrarily emended the text without consultation, annoying Yeats and causing him to have a proper agreement drawing up by his agent' (Paul Morgan, Frank Sidgwick's Diary).
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