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The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi.
by YEATS, W.B
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Elkin Matthews, 1904. . First published edition; small 8vo (16 x 13 cm); 2pp. ads. to rear, ads. to insider of wrappers, very minor spotting to last leaf; publisher's blue pictorial paper wrappers, lettered in black, publisher's device to lower cover, edges uncut, spine rubbed, edges slightly worn; 60, ivpp.
The first published edition of Yeats' The Tables of Law and the Adoration of the Magi, issued as no. 17 in Mathew Elkin's Vigo Cabinet Series. The work had previously appeared in 1897 in a private edition of 110 copies. 'I do not think I should have reprinted them had I not met a young man in Ireland the other day, who liked them very much and nothing else that I have written. W.B. Yeats' (Prefatory Note).
Matthew Elkin (d.1921), of The Bodley Head and The Yellow Book fame, was a loyal friend to many of the poets and writers in the Imagist school, regularly counting himself the first publisher of works by Yeats, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.
Wade 25.
The first published edition of Yeats' The Tables of Law and the Adoration of the Magi, issued as no. 17 in Mathew Elkin's Vigo Cabinet Series. The work had previously appeared in 1897 in a private edition of 110 copies. 'I do not think I should have reprinted them had I not met a young man in Ireland the other day, who liked them very much and nothing else that I have written. W.B. Yeats' (Prefatory Note).
Matthew Elkin (d.1921), of The Bodley Head and The Yellow Book fame, was a loyal friend to many of the poets and writers in the Imagist school, regularly counting himself the first publisher of works by Yeats, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.
Wade 25.
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- Shapero Rare Books
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- 110127
- Title
- The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi.
- Author
- YEATS, W.B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- London, Elkin Matthews, 1904.
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