YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER (1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel Prize winner for Literature)
PORTRAIT BY ALVIN LANGDON COBURN (1882-1966),
photogravure print, proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature), head and shoulders, speaking into the camera, Yeats's name written in pencil on the mount by Coburn, tipped onto a mount different from the printed version (12½ x 9½ in), extremely fine, 93/4 x 71/4 in (24.8 x 18.4 cm), [taken for 'Men of Mark', Dublin, 24 January 1908]
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