1/18/2013

Dustjackets

Some dustjackets of Yeats's books have interesting designs from an occult view point. We are not sure to what extent the designers, notably T. Sturge Moore and his mentor Charles Ricketts, pursued the symbolism, but the results were really fine.



W. B. Yeats, Plays in Prose and Verse (1922) design by Charles Ricketts




W. B. Yeats, Last Poems & Plays (1940) design by T. Sturge Moore.