AMERICAN EDITIONS.
(COMPILED BY JOHN QUINN.)
[1892.]
The | Countess Kathleen | And Various Legends and Lyrics. | By | W. B.
Yeats. | [Quotation, four lines] | Cameo Series | Boston: Roberts Bros.
| London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Identical with English edition except for title-page and publisher’s
name on back of binding and absence of publisher’s device on back cover.
1894.
The | Land of Heart’s Desire | By | W. B. Yeats | [publisher’s
monogram] | Chicago | Stone & Kimball | Caxton Building | MDCCCXCIV
Fcp. 8vo, pp. iv and 46. Grey boards with label. The frontispiece is by
Aubrey Beardsley, the design being the same as that used in the English
edition.
1903. Mosher’s first edition.
The Land of Heart’s Desire | By | W. B. Yeats | O Rose, thou art sick.
| William Blake.
Sm. 4to. This is No. 6 of Vol. IX. of _The Bibelot_, issued in June,
1903. Grey paper cover.
The Land of Heart’s Desire | By W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | Portland
Maine | Privately Printed | MDCCCCIII
Fcp. 8vo, pp. xvi and 32. Japan paper cover.
Only 32 copies were printed, during July, 1903.
The Land of Heart’s | Desire by William | Butler Yeats | [monogram] |
Portland Maine | Thomas B. Mosher | MDCCCCIII
Sm. 8vo, pp. vi and 36. White parchment paper.
Of this first edition 950 copies were printed on Van Gelder paper, 100
on Japan paper and 10 on pure vellum. Published in October, 1903. Later
editions, each consisting of 950 copies on Van Gelder paper, are bound
in grey boards with paper label.
The Celtic Twilight. | Men and Women, Dhouls and | Faeries. | By W. B.
Yeats. | With a frontispiece by J. B. Yeats. | New York: | Macmillan
and Co. | and London. | 1894
English sheets, with new title-page.
1895.
Poems.
Copies of the English edition were imported by Copeland and Day of
Boston, whose name appears on the title-page and binding of all copies.
1897.
The Secret Rose: | By W. B. Yeats, with | Illustrations by J. B.
| Yeats. | [monogram] | New York: Dodd, Mead & Company | London:
Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. | MDCCCXCVII.
These copies for the American market are copies of the first English
edition, with the original title-page torn out after the book was
bound, and the above new title-page pasted in.
1899.
The Wind | Among the Reeds | By | W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | John Lane:
The Bodley Head | New York and London | 1899
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 110. Cloth.
The English edition was printed from duplicate plates and is identical
except for imprint on title-page and the cutting out of copyright
notice and imprint on verso of title-page (p. [iv]) and the imprint at
end (p. [109]).
Later American editions have separate copyright notice on verso of
title-page dated 1905 but are printed from the same plates and contain
no additional lines.
1901.
The Shadowy Waters | By | W. B. Yeats | [ornament] | New York | Dodd,
Mead and Company | 1901
Cr. 4to, pp. 62. Grey boards with side label.
1902.
Where There is | Nothing | A Drama | In Five Acts | By | W. B. Yeats;
John Lane | MCMII
Cr. 8vo, pp. viii and 100. Issued in grey paper cover, the first page
printed from the types of the title-page.
Fifteen copies printed for copyright of which not over eight are now
known. Printed for Mr. John Quinn from the author’s first draft and
contains some errors corrected in the large-paper edition.
1902. Second Edition.
Printed for Mr. John Quinn from the same types as the preceding, but
without the publisher’s name on title-page and without imprint on verso
of title-page below copyright, and with some errors corrected. On the
reverse of the half-title is the notice “Thirty copies printed | from
the type, of which | this is No.________”
Large-paper copies (9-9/16ths by 5-7/16ths inches). Pale green boards
with labels on front and back.
These two editions contain a dedication to Lady Gregory, dated
September 19, 1902, which does not appear in any subsequent edition.
1903. Third Edition.
Where There is | Nothing | Being Volume One of Plays for | an Irish
Theatre | By | W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company |
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1903 | All rights reserved
Globe 8vo, pp. 216. Cloth.
This edition was considerably revised and contains some new passages.
The new dedication to Lady Gregory is dated February, 1903.
Also a large-paper edition, printed on Japan paper, and limited to 100
copies.
The Celtic Twilight. Revised and enlarged edition of 1902.
The English sheets were imported and bound in America, back of cover
being lettered “The Celtic | Twilight | W. B. Yeats. | The Macmillan |
Company”
1903.
Ideas of Good and | Evil. By W. B. Yeats | The Macmillan Company | New
York. MCMIII
English sheets with new title-page as above.
In the Seven Woods | Being Poems Chiefly of the | Irish Heroic Age | By
| W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company | London: Macmillan &
Co., Ltd. | 1903 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. vi and 90. Cloth.
1904.
The Hour-Glass | And Other Plays | Being Volume Two of Plays for | An
Irish Theatre | By | W. B. Yeats | New York | The Macmillan Company |
London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1904 | All rights reserved
Globe 8vo, pp. viii and 116. Cloth.[L]
Also a large-paper edition, limited to 100 copies.
These American editions do not contain the bars of music or the “Note
on the Music” of the English edition.
The King’s Threshold | A Play in Verse | By | W. B. Yeats | New York |
Printed for Private Circulation | 1904
Medium 8vo, pp. x and 58. Grey boards.
Printed on cream-coloured old hand-made Italian paper, 100 copies only,
for Mr. John Quinn.
1906.
The Poetical Works | of | William B. Yeats | In Two Volumes | Volume I
| Lyrical Poems | New York | The Macmillan Company | London: Macmillan
& Co., Ltd. | 1906 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv and 340. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
_Preface._ [Dated _In the Seven Woods_, July, 1906.]
_Early Poems: I. Ballads and Lyrics._
_Early Poems: II. The Wanderings of Oisin._
_Early Poems: III. The Rose._
_The Wind Among the Reeds._
_In the Seven Woods._
_The Old Age of Queen Maeve._
_Baile and Aillinn._
1907.
The Poetical Works | of | William B. Yeats | In Two Volumes | Volume
II | Dramatical Poems | New York | The Macmillan Company | London:
Macmillan & Co., Ltd. | 1907 | All rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. x and 528.
CONTENTS.
_Preface._ [Dated December, 1906.]
_The Countess Cathleen._
_The Land of Heart’s Desire._
_The Shadowy Waters._ [New version.]
_On Baile’s Strand._ [New version.]
_The King’s Threshold._ [New version.]
_Deirdre._
_Appendix I_: The Legendary and Mythological Foundation
of the Plays and Poems.
_Appendix II_: The Dates and Places of Performance of
the Plays.
_Appendix III_: _Acting Version of ‘The Shadowy
Waters.’_
_Appendix IV_: The Work of the National Theatre
Society at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin: A Statement of
Principles.
These two volumes form the first collected edition of the author’s
verse, lyric and dramatic. It is to America’s credit that this first
collected edition appeared in America.
1908.
The Unicorn from | the Stars | and Other Plays | By | William B. Yeats
| and | Lady Gregory | New York | The Macmillan Company | 1908 | All
rights reserved
Cr. 8vo, pp. xiv and 210. Cloth.
CONTENTS.
_The Unicorn from the Stars._ By Lady Gregory and W. B.
Yeats.
_Cathleen ni Hoolihan._
_The Hour-Glass: A Morality._
The Golden Helmet | By | William Butler Yeats | Published | By | John
Quinn | New York 1908
Fcp. 8vo, pp. viii and 34. Grey boards with label.
Fifty copies only printed.
NOTE.
Of the first separate edition of _The Hour-Glass_, described in Part I.
under date 1903, only twelve copies were printed. Of these, six went
for English copyright, two were lost in the post, the printer kept one,
one belongs to Mr. W. B. Yeats, one to Lady Gregory and one to Mr. John
Quinn.
The essay _Modern Irish Poetry_, which appeared as an Introduction to
_A Book of Irish Verse_, London, 1895 (see Part II.), was reissued with
additions in _Irish Literature_, Vol. III., Philadelphia, 1904.
THE END.
_Printed by_ A. H. BULLEN, _at The Shakespeare Head Press,
Stratford-on-Avon._
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FOOTNOTES:
[A] _Poems of Spenser: Selected and with an Introduction by W. B.
Yeats._ (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, N.D.)
[B] Rose Kavanagh, the poet, wrote to her religious adviser from, I
think, Leitrim, where she lived, and asked him to get her the works of
Mazzini. He replied, ‘You must mean Manzone.’
[C] I have heard him say more than once, ‘I will not say our people
know good from bad, but I will say that they don’t hate the good when
it is pointed out to them as a great many people do in England.’
[D] A small political organizer told me once that he and a certain
friend got together somewhere in Tipperary a great meeting of farmers
for O’Leary on his coming out of prison, and O’Leary had said at it:
‘The landlords gave us some few leaders, and I like them for that, and
the artisans have given us great numbers of good patriots, and so I
like them best: but you I do not like at all, for you have never given
us any one.’ I have known but one that had his moral courage, and that
was a woman with beauty, to give her courage and self-possession.
[E] This version, though Dr. Hyde went some way with it, has never been
published. I do not know why.—W.B.Y., _March, 1908_.
[F] Reprinted from _The Wanderings of Oisin_, 1889.
[G] Reprinted from _The Countess Cathleen_, 1892.
[H] Written for the first production of _The King’s Threshold_ in
Dublin, but not used, as, owing to the smallness of the company, nobody
could be spared to speak it.—W.B.Y., 1904.
[I] Reprinted from _The Shadowy Waters_, 1900.
[J] Reprinted from _In the Seven Woods_, 1903.
[K] ‘The Green Sheaf,’ No. IV., published as a supplement a
reproduction of a pastel by Mr. Yeats, _The Lake at Coole_.
[L] _The Pot of Broth_, contained in this volume, originally appeared
in _The Gael_, (an American Monthly Magazine, printed in New York,
partly in Irish and partly in English,) September, 1903.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Superscripted fractions are
shown
Page 23, “he” changed to “be” (may be greater)
Page 35, “maybe” changed to “may be” (it may be, generations)
Page 236, “p.” changed to “pp.” (_Ghosts_, pp. 128-129)
Page 247, “esssay” changed to “essay” (essay originally appeared)