Mythologies

First edition thus. 8vo. Pp. viii, 368, [1]. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With portrait frontispiece of the author from a charcoal drawing by John S. Sargent. Cream dustwrapper, ruled and printed in brown (priced 21s net to front flap). 1/3000 copies printed.

Light spotting to top edge, faint off-setting to free endpapers, dustwrapper spine slightly toned and creased to tips, with a brownish strip along the centre top edge of the upper panel. Contents clean and bright.

Mythologies was the title W. B. Yeats himself gave to this collection of Irish stories of the supernatural and the uncanny, based on widespread rural beliefs, traditions and folk tales, and originally published in the 1890s. Includes "The Celtic Twilight", "The Secret Rose", "Stories of Red Hanrahan", "Rosa Alchenica", "The Tables of the Law", "The Adoration of the Magi", and "Per Amica Silentia Lunae".

[Wade 211P]