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Yeats, W. B.
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth.
Publisher: MacMillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1916
Stock Code: 15134
First British edition of 1000 copies only, published in the same year as the first Irish and American editions. Duodecimo, pp., ix, [1] blank verso, 213, [1] blank verso, [2] of publisher’s advertisements, plus full colour tissue-guarded frontispiece mounted to black page, and two further tissue-guarded plates, as called for. Publisher’s original dark-blue cloth, gilt-stamped design to spine and upper board by Thomas Sturge Moore; all edges untrimmed, some pages unopened. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, spine dulled, cloth and gilt otherwise bright, binding strong and square. Offsetting to title-page and to plates. A very good copy. The first British edition of Yeats’ autobiography, which focusses on his experiences as an Irish child growing up in England. £50.00