Second printing of August 1956 of the augmented first edition thus issue first published March 1955. 8vo. Pp. vii, 592. Publisher's olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With b/w frontispiece portrait of Yeats by Augustus John; 7 full-page b/w plates, three of which by his brother, Jack B. Yeats and a self-portrait by John Butler Yeats. Notes, Index. Cream dustwrapper, ruled and printed in brown (priced 25s net to front flap).
Original publication in 1926 contained only Reveries over Childhood, Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. To this new edition have been added Dramatis Personae, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden. Additionally, it incorporates corrections made by Yeats himself shortly before his death.
Off-setting to endpapers, light browning to dustwrapper which sustains a minute, light abrasion to upper front panel (not affecting text), else Fine.