Poetry and Ireland. Essays by W.B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1908. First Edition.  Publisher’s quarter cloth over paper boards. In original glassine dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

One of 250 Copies Printed.

The book contains two essays (one by each poet) on ‘Poetry and Patriotism.’ With a  handwritten ‘Errata’ on Cuala Press stationary loosely inserted. 

Lionel Pigot Johnson was an English poet. Influenced by Yeats, he took a lively interest in the Irish Literary Society.