Yeats, the Tarot and the Golden Dawn
Kathleen Raine
The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1972 — First Edition
Kathleen Raine’s influential study of W. B. Yeats, Tarot symbolism and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Developed from a lecture delivered at the Yeats International Summer School in 1968, this essay examines Yeats’s engagement with the Tarot and the esoteric symbolism that informed his poetry and spiritual thought. It includes quotations from Yeats and an extensive illustrated section reproducing Tarot cards, symbolic diagrams and material associated with Yeats and the Golden Dawn.
Published as New Yeats Papers II, under the general editorship of Liam Miller.
This is the original 1972 first edition, printed and published by the Dolmen Press in Dublin.
Publication details
- Author: Kathleen Raine
- Publisher: The Dolmen Press, Dublin
- Year: 1972
- Edition: First edition
- SBN: 85105 195 2
- Format: Perfect-bound paperback with original cream printed dust jacket
- Illustrated throughout, with a substantial section of plates
- Printed on cream-coloured paper
Condition
The book itself is in good to very good condition. The pages are clean, the printing remains clear, and the illustrated plates are well preserved.
The original dust jacket shows age-related wear, including edge wear, creasing, small tears, corner chipping, some splitting along the spine fold, and light surface marks. Please refer to the photographs for a full indication of condition.
A scarce and attractive Dolmen Press edition of particular interest to collectors of Yeats, the Golden Dawn, Tarot, Western esotericism and Irish literary history.
Price: £75 plus postage and packing
Near offers considered.
