William Butler Yeats. The Poet in Contemporary Ireland.

First edition. [1915]. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 134. Publisher's navy blue buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, ruled and stamped in blind to front. Issued in the "Irishmen of To-day" series.

Inscribed to f.f.e.p. by Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats (daughter of John Butler Yeats and sister to William Butler, Jack and Elizabeth Yeats) on Xmas 1915. An embroiderer associated with the Celtic Revival, "Lily" Yeats became involved in the Arts and Crafts movement in London, working as assistant to May Morris. Returning to Dublin in 1900, she and her sister Elizabeth joined Evelyn Gleeson in the Dun Emer crafts studio, where she ran the needlework section. In 1908 she founded the embroidery department of Cuala Industries, with which she was involved until its dissolution in 1931. Bumped to lower edges, rubbed to extremities, slight internal foxing, else Very Good.

Uncommon early account of Yeats.

[Wade, p.385]