Shakespeare Head Press—W.B. Yeats | The collected works in verse and prose…, 1908, 8 volumes, signed authorial presentation inscription

Shakespeare Head Press—W.B. Yeats

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head press, 1908

WITH SIGNED AUTHORIAL PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER OF FIRST VOLUME: "Archie Russell from his friend W.B. Yeats, May 1909", 8 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece portraits of Yeats in 5 of the volumes (as called for), original vellum-backed boards, gilt titles to upper boards and spines, top edges gilt, others uncut, endleaves slightly browned, gilt top edges rubbed, some marks to boards

[With:]

4 letters of correspondence between Professor D. J. Gordon and William Kean Seymour Esquire, concerning the volumes themselves, and Yeats' connection to A. G. B. Russell; on 4 leaves folded and stapled together (2 carbon copies, 2 typed and signed in biro)

RARE PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF YEATS' WORKS, inscribed to Archie Russell, the English art historian, long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms, and editor of several published works on William Blake.

PROVENANCE:

Authorial presentation inscription, dated May 1909, to Archibald George Blomefield Russell (1879-1955), with Russell's bookplate

LITERATURE:

Wade 75-82