The Hour-Glass. A Morality. London: Bullen, 1907. First Separately Published Edition. Pp, 16, uncut. Publisher gray sewn paper wrappers, title printed in black. A very good to fine copy. Housed in collector’s box. Inscribed by the Author in year of publication: “W.B. Yeats, June 21, 1907.”

First published as volume two of ‘Plays for an Irish Theatre’ in 1903. The actors in this short one act play are a wise man, a fool, some pupils, an angel, and the wise man’s wife and two children. [Wade 67].