Imaginations and Reveries.

AE [ pseud of George Russell]. 1867-1935.:

Published by Dublin: Maunsel & Company Ltd n d Inscription, 1917

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First edition? 8vo. pp255. Blue buckram with title in gilt. Spine sunned , inscription of previous owner and book plate [ Aline A. Austin]. A.E. , poet and painter, was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh. His family moved to Dublin. A.D. was educated in Rathmines School and the Metropolitan School of Art where he began his life-loong friendship with W.B.Yeats. He became the editor of The Irish Homestead , and gained it a wide influence in the cause of agricultural co-operation.His first book of poems, Homeward Songs by the Way, was published in 1894. A,E, became a theosophist., and wrote extensively on economics and politics, besides continuing to paint and write poetry.His house in Rathgar was a meeting place fro all interested in the artistic and economic furure of Ireland.After his wife died in 1932, he moved to England and died in Bournemouyh in 1935,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imaginations and Reveries.
• Publisher: Dublin: Maunsel & Company Ltd n d Inscription
• Publication Date: 1917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition