The Cutting of an Agate.
by YEATS, W.B
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London, Macmillan and Co., 1919. . First English edition; 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm); publisher's device to half-title verso, erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper, notes in pen to rear free endpaper verso and a few very minor marginal annotations, paper browned; publisher's blue cloth gilt stamped with design by Thomas Sturge Moore, glassine wrapper, fore-edge uncut, spine caps rubbed; vii, [1], 223, [1]pp.
The first English edition of Yeats' prose collection, The Cutting of an Agate. 'I wrote the greater number of these essays during the ten years after 1902. During those years I wrote little verse and no prose that did not arise out of some need of the Irish players, or from some thought suggested by their work' (Preface).
The contents of the English and American editions are substantially different. Here 'Certain Noble Plays for Japan' is substituted in place of 'Thought on Lady Gregory's Translations'.
Wade 126.
The first English edition of Yeats' prose collection, The Cutting of an Agate. 'I wrote the greater number of these essays during the ten years after 1902. During those years I wrote little verse and no prose that did not arise out of some need of the Irish players, or from some thought suggested by their work' (Preface).
The contents of the English and American editions are substantially different. Here 'Certain Noble Plays for Japan' is substituted in place of 'Thought on Lady Gregory's Translations'.
Wade 126.
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- Title
- The Cutting of an Agate.
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- YEATS, W.B
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- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Macmillan and Co., 1919.
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