YEATS, W. B. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, London: Chapman & Hall, imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-on-Avon, 1908, 8 volumes, 8°, [limited to 1060 copies, this one of ca. 250 copies printed for Chapman and Hall], titles in red and black, photogravure frontispiece portraits by Emery Walker after John Sargent, Charles Shannon, A. Mancini and J. B. Yeats in volumes I, III, V and VII (portrait in vol. I lacking tissue guard), original grey cloth backed in vellum, upper covers and spines titled in gilt (spines lightly dust-soiled and speckled, spine of vol. II slightly crinkled at foot), t.e.g., others uncut (top edges dust-soiled). [Wade 75-82] (8)

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YEATS, W. B. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, London: Chapman & Hall, imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford-on-Avon, 1908, 8 volumes, 8°, [limited to 1060 copies, this one of ca. 250 copies printed for Chapman and Hall], titles in red and black, photogravure frontispiece portraits by Emery Walker after John Sargent, Charles Shannon, A. Mancini and J. B. Yeats in volumes I, III, V and VII (portrait in vol. I lacking tissue guard), original grey cloth backed in vellum, upper covers and spines titled in gilt (spines lightly dust-soiled and speckled, spine of vol. II slightly crinkled at foot), t.e.g., others uncut (top edges dust-soiled). [Wade 75-82] (8)

Provenance

Johann B. W. Polak, ownership stamp to rear pastedown of each volume.

Lot Essay

Wade records that A. H. Bullen "arranged with Messrs. Chapman and Hall, Ltd., to take over 250 copies, his reason being that, as he did not employ a traveller and Chapman and Hall did, they would be able to interest booksellers whom he would not be able to reach. The volumes taken over had special titles with LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL Limited at foot, and the binding bore CHAPMAN & HALL at foot of spine; otherwise they were identical with those issued from the Shakespeare Head Press."

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