The Hour-Glass: Manuscript Materials, W. B. Yeats. Published by Cornell University Press, 1994. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 408pp.
Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles, blue endpapers. In fine condition with small remainder mark to lower outside edge; light wear to dustjacket.
Based on a folktale called “The Priest’s Soul,” which Yeats first encountered in 1888, The Hour-Glass was written as both a play in prose and a drama in verse over the course of more than thirty years. This volume brings together all extant manuscripts of The Hour-Glass, from a handwritten three-page fragment of the 1902 prose version to Yeats’s typescripts of the 1922 verse rendition.
