Yeats book that cost a shilling now worth 50,000 pounds at auction

The Scotsman | July 6, 1999| | Copyright

IT WAS, by any stretch of the imagination, money well spent. Thomas Edwin Butler Yeats paid one shilling for a copy of the first book written by his famous relative, William Butler Yeats, and now it could be worth up to GBP 50,000.

The story of the bargain buy has emerged with the auction of a collection of personal memorabilia relating to the famous Irish family - the artist John Butler and his sons Jack and William.

Along with revealing illustrated letters, sketches, hand- coloured Christmas cards, prayer books and a photograph album comes the extremely rare first edition of WB's first book, ...

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