YEATS, William Butler. The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats in Verse and Prose. Eight volumes [LIMITED TO 1060 SETS ONLY IN FINE BUMPUS BINDING]

Vol. I: Poems Lyrical and Narrative. Vol. II: The King’s Threshold; On Baile’s Strand; Deirdre; Shadowy Waters. Vol. III: The Countess Cathleen; The Land of Heart’s Desire; The Unicorn from the Stars. Vol. IV: The Hour-Glass; Cathleen Ni Houlihan; The Golden Helmet; The Irish Dramatic Movement. Vol. V: The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan. Vol. VI: Ideas of Good and Evil. Vol. VII: The Secret Rose; Rosa Alchemica; The Tables of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi; John Sherman and Dhoya. Vol. VIII: Discoveries; Edmund Spenser Poetry and Tradition; & Other Essays. Portrait frontispieces to volumes I, III, V and VII. Stratford-on-Avon: Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. First collected edition. Octavo. Bound by Bumpus in contemporary half green crushed levant morocco over green cloth boards. Spines divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, titles and volume numbers in gilt direct in the second and third, the remaining panels blocked in gilt; splash-marbled endpapers; green endbands; green silk marker. From the library of Michael, Earl of Rosse, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. Spines evenly faded. All edges gilt. A fine and desirable set. Printed by A. H. Bullen at The Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon, for publisher Chapman & Hall.