Item #783 THE TABLES OF THE LAW AND THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI. William Butler Yeats.

THE TABLES OF THE LAW AND THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI.

London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First trade edition. Blue wrappers, printed and decorated in black. [6],7-60,iv pp. Five pages of publisher's advertisements, two leaves that carry on to the verso of lower wrap. Text tanned as usual, tiny nick at crown of spine, many pages unopened; an unusually nice copy, near fine. 

First trade edition, ordinary wrapper-bound issue, after the semi "private" edition of 110 numbered copies printed in 1897, here published as No. 17 in the Vigo Cabinet Series. An unknown, but quite small, number of copies of this edition were printed on thick paper and bound in quarter linen and boards. Later issues (or impressions) appeared in cloth, ca. 1909, and in wrappers in 1909. Near fine. Item #783

WADE 25.

Price: $300.00