modernisms

BLACKWELL’S RARE BOOKS
124. Yeats (W. B.) Sailing to Byzantium; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Song of
Wandering Aengus, & other poems [3 Vols.] Set by hand, printed letterpress &
presented with an original linocut by Mary Plunkett. Dublin: Belgrave Private
Press, 2015, EACH VOLUME 6/20 COPIES (from an edition of 50 copies) signed by
the printer, three-panel fold-out linocuts printed in different combinations of 3
colours, colophons printed in red, pp. [10]; [10]; [10], 8vo, original quarter cloth
with illustrated boards repeating linocuts, cloth slipcase, fine £250
One of only 20 sets of these attractively printed editions. The other poems featured
are ‘The Choice’, ‘No Second Troy’, and ‘Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland’, ‘Down
by the Salley Gardens’, ‘Who Goes with Fergus’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’,
and ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’,‘When you are
old’, ‘A Coat’, and ‘The White Birds’.
125. Yeats (W.B.) Sailing to Byzantium & other poems. Set by hand, printed letterpress
& presented with an original linocut by Mary Plunkett. Dublin: Belgrave Private
Press, 2015, 31/30 COPIES (from an edition of 50 copies) signed by the printer,
three-panel fold-out linocut printed in blue, colophon printed in red, pp. [10],
8vo, original sewn plain card wrappers, dustjacket repeating linocut, fine £45
An attractively printed edition, the other poems being ‘The Choice’, ‘No Second Troy’,
and ‘Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland’.
126. Yeats (W.B.) The Song of Wandering Aengus & other poems. Set by hand, printed
letterpress & presented with an original linocut by Mary Plunkett. Dublin:
Belgrave Private Press, 2015, 31/30 COPIES (from an edition of 50 copies) signed
by the printer, three-panel fold-out linocut printed in green, colophon printed
in red, pp. [10], 8vo, original sewn plain card wrappers, dustjacket repeating
linocut, fine £45
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