[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by W. B. Yeats to John O'Leary

[Charles Agvent]

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YEATS, W. B; ET. AL. THE SECOND BOOK OF THE RHYMERS' CLUB. London/New 
York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane 1894.First Edition. Original smooth 
brown buckram with gilt lettering on the spine, recently rebacked 
retaining the original spine. Wade 294. One of a total of 650 copies, 
published in June. Contains the first book publication of six poems by 
Yeats. Other contributors include Ernest Dowson and Arthur Symons. A 
superb associaton copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "John 
O'Leary/from W B Yeats/July 21 / 94." The Irish patriot O'Leary 
(1830-1907), who owned the largest library of Irish books in his day, 
was perhaps Yeats's most important mentor nurturing the poet's 
inclination towards an Irish nationalism. He was immortalized in the 
refrain from Yeats's poem "September 1913" from RESPONSIBILITIES (1914): 
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,/It's with O'Leary in the grave." 
Yeats wrote about O'Leary at length in his TREMBLING OF THE VEIL, noting 
among other things that O'Leary found almost all the subscribers for his 
first book THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN. Modern bookplate on the front 
pastedown. Paper aged as usual with a brief tear to one page.Very Good 
with a magnificent association.  $25,000

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