[Yeats, W. B.- Fabulous Association Copy from Eugene Field to W. Irving Way] The Book of the Rhymers' Club

Yeats, W. B. (contributor)

Verlag: Elkin Mathews, London, 1892

Beschreibung

First Edition. 12mo. 94pp. publisher's smooth light tan cloth with Rhymers' Club paper label on spine. A special presentation copy from Eugene Field to his friend Irving Way, author, literary agent and book publisher in Chicago who formed the fine press house of Way and WiIliams, inspired by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, with a superb inscription in Fieldís lovely miniscule hand ( a quotable poem in itself) and with Eugene Fieldís bookplate. On front free endpaper: "To W. I. Way, Esqr., A poet who will not poetize, from Eugene Field, A rhymer who rhymes. Chicago, April 5th, 1893." Chipping to paper label, very slight wear to extr. of spine, near fine. Contributors include (but not limited to): W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, and Arthur Symons. The first and rarest of the Rhymers' anthologies. 350 copies for sale. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6293

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Yeats, W. B.- Fabulous Association Copy ...

Verlag: Elkin Mathews, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1892

Auflage: First Edition.