Poems

Fifth Edition. With a revised bibliographical note, dated May 1904, and incorporating the revisions of the 1901 third edition. Cr. 8vo. Pp. xiii, 301. Publisher's dark blue cloth, elaborately tooled in gilt to boards and spine, after an art nouveau design by Althea Gyles. Fore-and bottom edges untrimmed. Title-page printed in red and black, opposite frontispiece portrait of the author by John B. Yeats.

Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, light offsetting to endpapers and prelims., slight spotting to top and fore-edge, else Fine.

Originally published in 1899, Yeats would incessantly revise his magnum opus, a process he likened to "cutting out the dead wood," leading to the definitive 1927 form of this collection.

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