W.B. Yeats - Poems (Althea Gyles Art Nouveau binding) - 1901
"Poems" by W. B. Yeats T. Fisher Unwin, London - 1901 third edition (first thus UK edition in the famous Art Nouveau design binding by Althea Gyles) - 304p, 18cmx15cm - condition: beautiful copy in original binding, with letter on spine, small stamp on front endpaper, Yeats frontispiece present, complete. Publisher’s dark-blue cloth with elaborate gilt designs to boards and spine, page edges untrimmed, frontispiece portrait of Yeats (with tissue guard) , title page in red and black, Beautiful gilt cover decorations by the Irish poet and artist Althea Gyles – an interesting and eccentric bohemian figure, whom Roy Foster, in ‘W. B. Yeats: A Life’, describes as “fey and slightly manic”. Born in 1867, she was connected to some of the leading literary figures of the 1890s, including Yeats, Ernest Dowson and Leonard Smithers, and was also a member of the occult society the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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"Poems" by W. B. Yeats T. Fisher Unwin, London - 1901 third edition (first thus UK edition in the famous Art Nouveau design binding by Althea Gyles) - 304p, 18cmx15cm - condition: beautiful copy in original binding, with letter on spine, small stamp on front endpaper, Yeats frontispiece present, complete. Publisher’s dark-blue cloth with elaborate gilt designs to boards and spine, page edges untrimmed, frontispiece portrait of Yeats (with tissue guard) , title page in red and black, Beautiful gilt cover decorations by the Irish poet and artist Althea Gyles – an interesting and eccentric bohemian figure, whom Roy Foster, in ‘W. B. Yeats: A Life’, describes as “fey and slightly manic”. Born in 1867, she was connected to some of the leading literary figures of the 1890s, including Yeats, Ernest Dowson and Leonard Smithers, and was also a member of the occult society the Order of the Golden Dawn.
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