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The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi.

Stock Code 110127

London, Elkin Matthews, 1904

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The first published edition of Yeats' The Tables of Law and the Adoration of the Magi, issued as no. 17 in Mathew Elkin's Vigo Cabinet Series. The work had previously appeared in 1897 in a private edition of 110 copies. 'I do not think I should have reprinted them had I not met a young man in Ireland the other day, who liked them very much and nothing else that I have written. W.B. Yeats' (Prefatory Note).

Matthew Elkin (d.1921), of The Bodley Head and The Yellow Book fame, was a loyal friend to many of the poets and writers in the Imagist school, regularly counting himself the first publisher of works by Yeats, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound.

First published edition; small 8vo (16 x 13 cm); 2pp. ads. to rear, ads. to insider of wrappers, very minor spotting to last leaf; publisher's blue pictorial paper wrappers, lettered in black, publisher's device to lower cover, edges uncut, spine rubbed, edges slightly worn; 60, ivpp.

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The Tables of the Law and the Adoration of the Magi.

YEATS, W.B.

Stock code: 110127

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