William Butler Yeats; Horace Reynolds [ed.] — Letters to the New Island

Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally lovely association copy of the first collected edition of these essays by W. B. Yeats. From the library of Yeats scholar Marion Witt, and with contextual annotations throughout. The first edition of this work, which collects essays W. B. Yeats originally contributed to the Boston Pilot and the Providence Sunday Journal between 1888 and 1892.With a portrait frontispiece.With essays on contemporary books, plays, Irish folklore and the cultural life of his time.With contextual ink annotations throughout, expanding on the work and correcting errors, such as 'Dutton' to 'Dalton', and adding Yeats's name to the end of each of his poems that are sampled in the work.These annotations are in the hand of Marion Witt, whose bookplate appears to the front pastedown. Witt was a significant American Yeats scholar and collector, particularly known for her extensive personal collection of W.B. Yeats' works, which formed the basis for exhibitions and publications after her death. She published articles on Yeats' politics, views, and textual revisions.With the bookplate of Milton McC. Gatch to front pastedown. He was an American theologian, librarian and scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval Christian literature who served as a professor, Dean and Provost at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, exceptionally bright, with light shelf wear to back strip tail. Bookplates to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with ink notations and annotations throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .