YEATS, W.B. Selected Poems of William Butler Yeats

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. 8vo. pp. 201. Title-page printed in red and black, decorative borders throughout by Liam Roberts. Finely bound in full brown grained leather, covers elaborately blocked in gilt with Art Nouveau-style foliate frame, spine lettered and ornamented in gilt in compartments, raised bands, all edges gilt, brown silk moiré endpapers, ribbon marker. Gilt bright and fresh, binding tight and square. A fine copy.

A handsome limited edition issued by The Franklin Library, selected and introduced by M. L. Rosenthal, with illustrations by Liam Roberts. Printed on acid-free paper and privately distributed to subscribers.

A beautifully produced late twentieth-century fine binding of Yeats’s major lyrics, including selections from Crossways, The Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair, and Words for Music Perhaps, featuring such canonical poems as The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Easter 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, Among School Children, and Leda and the Swan.

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