YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Countess Kathleen And Various Legends and Lyrics. London: Unwin, 1892. 8vo, original two-toned boards, uncut, rather worn, spine darkened, catalogue clipping offset on rear endpaper. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 ordinary copies of an edition of 530, frontispiece of "Cuchullin Fighting the Waves" by J.T. Nettleship, PRESENTATION COPY TO HIM, inscribed by Yeats on the front free endpaper: "to J.T. Nettleship, from his friend the writer" (ink a bit smeared). Wade 6. In John Quinn's copy of this book (now in the Berg Collection at NYPL) Yeats wrote in 1904: "'Nettleship who made this rather disappointing picture [referring to the frontispiece] might have been a great imaginative artist. Browning once in a fit of enthusiasm said a design of his of "God creating Evil" was "the most sublime conception of ancient or modern art"'" -- Wade, p. 27.
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER The Countess Kathleen And Various Legends and Lyrics. London: Unwin, 1892. 8vo, original two-toned boards, uncut, rather worn, spine darkened, catalogue clipping offset on rear endpaper. FIRST EDITION, one of 500 ordinary copies of an edition of 530, frontispiece of "Cuchullin Fighting the Waves" by J.T. Nettleship, PRESENTATION COPY TO HIM, inscribed by Yeats on the front free endpaper: "to J.T. Nettleship, from his friend the writer" (ink a bit smeared). Wade 6. In John Quinn's copy of this book (now in the Berg Collection at NYPL) Yeats wrote in 1904: "'Nettleship who made this rather disappointing picture [referring to the frontispiece] might have been a great imaginative artist. Browning once in a fit of enthusiasm said a design of his of "God creating Evil" was "the most sublime conception of ancient or modern art"'" -- Wade, p. 27.
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