EXHIBITION CHECKLIST

This checklist is only a partial record of the exhibition. It includes books, periodicals, and photographs which are part of the UNC collections but none of the many photographic reproductions from other sources used to provide a visual complement to the UNC materials. All materials are from the Yeats Collection unless identified otherwise. They are arranged here roughly in the order they will be found in the cases. The Wade numbers following the bibliographical information are from Alan Wade, A Bibliography of the Writings of W. B. Yeats. Third edition, revised and edited by Russell K. Alspach. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.

1. William Butler Yeats. Reveries Over Childhood and Youth. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1915. With a separate portfolio of three prints. First edition. Wade 111.

2. William Butler Yeats. "Song of the Faeries." In The Dublin University Review, March 1885. The poet's first appearance in print.

3. William Butler Yeats. "Mosada." In The Dublin University Review, June 1886.

4. William Butler Yeats (editor). Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott, 1888. First edition. Wade 212.

5. William Butler Yeats (editor). A Book of Irish Verse. London: Methuen, 1895. First edition. Wade 225.

6. William Butler Yeats. "Fairies, Ghosts, Witches, Etc." In Lucifer, January 15, 1889. Lucifer was a periodical associated with the Theosophical Society of Madame Helena Blavatsky.

7. [William Butler Yeats.] Is the Order of R.R. & A.C. to Remain a Magical Order? Written in March, 1901, and Given to the Adepti of the Order of R.R. & A.C. in April, 1901. S.l., n.d. Wade no. 33. A rare pamphlet written by Yeats as a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn.

8. William Butler Yeats. The Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Poems. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. First edition. Wade 2.

9. William Butler Yeats. The Countess Cathleen. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition. Wade 6. The copy displayed is number 26 of 30 numbered copies.

10. The Book of the Rhymers' Club. London: Elkin Mathews, 1892. [And] The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club. London: Elkin Mathews, 1894. First editions. Wade 291 and 294. Shown are the large paper issues of both works. The publisher printed fifty copies of each. The UNC Yeats Collection also has copies of the regular paper issues.

11. William Butler Yeats. The Celtic Twilight. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. First edition. Wade 8.

12. William Butler Yeats. The Land of Heart's Desire. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition. Wade 10.

13. William Butler Yeats. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition. Wade 15. The first edition of Yeats's collected poems. Shown are copies of both the limited (twenty-five copies, signed by the author) and trade editions. The UNC copy of the trade edition is inscribed by Yeats and has a correction by him on page 45.

14. William Butler Yeats. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. Second English edition, revised. Wade 17. The design stamped in gold on the spine and covers was by Althea Gyles.

15. William Butler Yeats. The Secret Rose. London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897. First edition. Wade 21.

16. William Butler Yeats. The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi. [London:] Privately Printed, 1897. First edition. Wade 24. The UNC copy is number 78 of the special limited edition of 110 copies.

17. William Butler Yeats. The Wind Among the Reeds. London: Elkin Mathews, 1903. Fourth edition. See Wade 29. Copy bound in vellum with the cover design of Althea Gyles from the first edition.

18. Copies of The Bookman, The Dome, The Savoy, The Shanachie, and The Green Sheaf. A selection from the many contemporary periodicals in the collection with contributions by Yeats.

19. William Butler Yeats. Cathleen ni Houlihan. London: Caradoc Press, 1902. First edition. Wade 40.

20. William Butler Yeats. Where There is Nothing: A Drama in Five Acts. [S.l.]: John Lane, 1902. First American edition. Wade 42. One of fifteen copies "printed for John Quinn from the author's first draft and containing some errors corrected in the large paper edition" (Wade, p. 61). The collection also contains a copy of the large paper edition (Wade 43), number four of thirty copies, signed by Yeats.

21. Beltaine, An Occasional Publication: The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre. London: At the Sign of the Unicorn, 1900. Volume one, numbers 1-3 (1899-1900). [And] Samhain. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. [And] The Arrow. No. 3 (February 23, 1907). Successive publications edited by Yeats and relating to the Irish National Theatre, later the Abbey Theatre.

22. John Millington Synge. The Playboy of the Western World. Dublin: Maunsel, 1907. First edition. With a portrait of the author by John Butler Yeats as frontispiece. From the general holdings of the Rare Book Collection.

23. The Abbey Row. Not Edited by W. B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel, [ca. 1907].

24. G. Bernard Shaw. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. 1909. Typed prompt copy. Shaw's own prompt copy with his personal annotations. It contains an earlier version of the text than either the printed rehearsal copies or the first edition. From the Archibald Henderson Collection of G. Bernard Shaw, Rare Book Collection.

25. "The English Drama: How It is Managed." Cartoon by Wallace Cooper. In The Liverpool Courier, May 25, 1909. This cartoon shows Shaw as a gagged puppet, with a copy of Blanco Posnet in his pocket, manipulated from above by a monstrous figure representing government bureaucracy. From the Archibald Henderson Collection of G. Bernard Shaw, Rare Book Collection.

26. Photograph of the Abbey Theatre performers on the set of the 1909 Dublin performance of Blanco Posnet. Photographer unknown. From the Archibald Henderson Collection of G. Bernard Shaw, Rare Book Collection.

27. Sean O'Casey. The Plough and the Stars. London: Macmillan, 1926. First edition. From the general holdings of the Rare Book Collection.

28. Dun Emer Press. [Prospectus.] [Dundrum,] Dun Emer Press, 1903. A copy of the original prospectus of the Dun Emer/Cuala Press.

29. William Butler Yeats. In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1903. First edition. Wade 49. The first book published by the Dun Emer Press.

30. William Butler Yeats and Lionel Johnson. Poetry and Ireland. First edition. Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1908. First Edition. Wade 242. The first book of the Dun Emer Press after it was renamed "Cuala."

31. A Broadside. Dundrum [and other locations]: Dun Emer [later Cuala] Press, 1908-1915. First series. Eighty-four numbers in three portfolios. With hand-colored illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. From the general holdings of the Rare Book Collection.

32. William Butler Yeats. The Hour Glass. [S.l.]: Privately printed, [1914]. Wade 108. Limited to 50 copies, this edition contains a new version of the play, which first appeared in 1903.

33. William Butler Yeats. Responsibilities: Poems and A Play. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1914. First edition. Wade 110.

34. William Butler Yeats. Eight Poems. London: Published by Form at the Morland Press Ltd., [1916]. First edition. Wade 114. One of 200 numbered copies. Yeats disliked the style of this pamphlet intensely and on the front cover of this copy has written: "I have had nothing to do with the publication of this pretentious pamphlet."

35. William Butler Yeats. The Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and A Play. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1917. First edition. Wade 118.

36. William Butler Yeats. Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition. Wade 127.

37. William Butler Yeats. Four Plays for Dancers. London: Macmillan and Co., 1921. First edition. Wade 129.

38. William Butler Yeats. The Irish Dramatic Movement: A Lecture Delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Fils, 1924. First edition. Wade 144. Yeats's speech upon receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

39. William Butler Yeats. A Vision: An Explanation of Life Founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus and Upon Certain Doctrines Attributed to Kusta Ben Luka. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1925. First edition. Wade 149. Number 325 of 600 copies, signed by the author.

40. William Butler Yeats. The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition. [And] New York: Macmillan, 1928. First American edition. Wade 158 and 159.

41. William Butler Yeats. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. Wade 169.

42. William Butler Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley (editors). Broadsides: A Collection of New Irish and English Songs. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1937. Third Series. Wade 254. The Cuala Press printed 300 copies of the twelve broadsides. This is one of one hundred copies bound and signed by the editors.

43. William Butler Yeats. "Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902." In The London Mercury, December 1935. Yeats's autobiographical essay appeared in three issues of The London Mercury from November 1935 to January 1936. 

44. William Butler Yeats. "The Three Bushes." In The London Mercury and Bookman, January 1937.

45. William Butler Yeats. On the Boiler. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. First edition. Wade 201. Yeats was not satisfied with this first edition and had all but four copies destroyed. This is one of the surviving copies. The Cuala Press issued a second edition in the autumn following the poet's death in January 1939.

46. William Butler Yeats. Last Poems & Plays. London: Macmillan and Co., 1940. First edition. Wade 203.