first edition
1905
by SYNGE, J. M.
1905. SYNGE, J. M. THE WELL OF THE SAINTS. With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats. Being Volume Four of Plays for an Irish Theatre. London: A. H. Bullen, 1905. First English edition and first edition thus, with Yeats's introduction. (Wade 262: "Copies of the play, using Bullen's sheets but without Yeats's introduction, had been issued in Dublin by Maunsel and Co. as Volume I. of their Abbey Theatre Series in February 1905.") Octavo. xviii,92 pp. Grey paper boards with green cloth back, but lacking the printed spine label. Cloth spine is lightly rubbed at ends and along joints; boards are lightly edgeworn and show general light soiling. Negligible foxing along fore-edge of bookblock but clean within. About very good. (Inventory #: 77863)