£50
YEATS, W B POEMS SECOND SERIES, Stratford on Avon 1913, new edition, portrait frontispiece, signed, inscribed and dated on the endpaper Anne from her cousins Lydia M Webb, Helen Webb February 4 1916, original boards, green cloth spine
Provenance: Lydia Maria Webb (1842-1918) and her sister Dr Helen Webb (1854-1926). Of Irish Quaker heritage, the Webb sisters lived together at Spout Farm, Rotherfield, Sussex. Lydia Webb died when the RMS Leinster was torpedo by a German submarine on 10th October 1918. An obiturist described her as "an ardent supporter of the Women's Suffrage Movement"
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