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[CUALA PRESS]. YEATS, William Butler (1865–1939). Reveries Over Childhood and Youth. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1915. 8vo. Printed in red and black, woodcut printer’s device on title. Publisher’s linen–backed boards, printed title on upper cover, original binder’s ticket of Galwey & Co. (some browning or staining to boards, spines a bit toned). –– [ALSO WITH:] 3 loose plates as issued, laid in portfolio with uniform binding, including 2 engravings after Emery Walker and one mounted color plate after Jack B. Yeats of “Memory Harbour” with an accompanying leaf of text by Yeats. –– Provenance: Helen Macgregor Byrne (ownership stamp in both volumes), wife of James Byrne who was a close friend to the author. LIMITED EDITION, number 415 of 450 copies of Yeats’ autobiography covering his earliest memories and into his early twenties. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books 23, p. 240; Wade 111.