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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by Yeats, William Butler
- Bookseller: St Marys Books and Prints
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- Seller Inventory #: 001986
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: N/A
- Illustrator: Jack B. Yeats
- Edition: Subscribers Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Franklin Library for Oxford University Press
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1983
Description
New York: Franklin Library for Oxford University Press, 1983 Definitive edition with the Author's Final Revisions. Sumptiously produced special edition for subscribers only of "The Oxford Library of the World's Great Books". Decorated gold stamped blue cloth with leather spine, raised bands and gilt decoration with titles. All page edges gilt, silk marker, marbled endpapers. Illustrations by the author's brother Jack B. Yeats (first published 1956) The coloured woodcut illustrations by Jack B. Yeats chosen for this volume are reproduced from publication held in the Special Collection of the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library by permission of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.. Printed on acid free paper. 522 pp FINE HANDSOME UNOPENED COPY. Subscribers Edition. Half-Leather. Fine/N/A. Illus. by Jack B. Yeats. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4" Tall. Subscribers Edition.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
raised band(s) : On leather bound books, the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
unopened : A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional method for printing and binding books in which a large sheet of paper was printed with several pages, folded, and bound into the book. . Sometimes inappropriately called uncut
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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