Reveries over childhood and youth.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215912
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 213, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (col. frontis.) ; 18cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: Twentieth-century full polished mottled calf. Green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt edges. Bookseller's stamp: Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St. W. Original boards bound in at the end.
Makers and roles
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Jack Butler Yeats (Tullylish 1871 - New York City 1957) John Butler Yeats (1839-1922)