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YEATS, William Butler. The Poems, London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1949. 2 volumes, large 8° (252 x 155mm). Half titles, frontispiece portraits by John Singer Sargent in volume one and Augustus John in volume II. Original green buckram gilt, top edges gilt (light dampstain to upper edge of lower cover of vol. one), acetate wrappers. NUMBER 221 OF 375 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Wade 209.
An explanation as to how Yeats was able to sign this edition some ten years after his death is provided in the prospectus: "For some time before his death, W. B. Yeats was engaged in revising the text of this edition of his poems, of which he had corrected the proofs, and for which he had signed the special page to appear at the beginning of Volume I." (2)
An explanation as to how Yeats was able to sign this edition some ten years after his death is provided in the prospectus: "For some time before his death, W. B. Yeats was engaged in revising the text of this edition of his poems, of which he had corrected the proofs, and for which he had signed the special page to appear at the beginning of Volume I." (2)
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