YEATS, W. B.

£675 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Essays. First edition, rare with the jacket in such sharp condition. This edition was followed by the American trade and limited editions later the same year. It includes the first book publication of Art and Ideas.Two variant jackets are known: the plain jacket with Macmillan's imprint (as here) and those decorated after the front cover design. While no priority has been established, the jackets of the earlier Macmillan Yeats titles are plain, while the more elaborately decorated Macmillan jackets appear to have been introduced in the mid-1920s, suggesting that the plain jacket on this 1924 title may constitute the earlier issue.

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