[The Flax of Dream tetralogy comprising] The Beautiful Years [with] Dandelion Days [with] The Dream of Fair Women [with] The Pathway. [The Second Text of each work]. LIMITED SIGNED EDITION OF 'THE FLAX OF DREAM' TETRALOGY

4 vols., roy. 8vo., Revised Edition, Large Paper, on English hand-made paper; original coloured buckram (respectively blue, yellow, red, green), upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, backstrips very lightly sunned and dust-soiled (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean set. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES OF EACH VOLUME SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE AUTHOR (THESE COPIES NUMBERED RESPECTIVELY 152, 69, 51, 135). IN THE SECOND VOLUME WILLIAMSON HAS SIGNED AND NUMBERED IN GREEN INK. Williamson's first published work, 'The Beautiful Years' is the first of four in which he tells the story of 'one human unit of Europe immediately before and after the war'. The four titles are 'The Beautiful Years', 'Dandelion Days', 'The Dream of Fair Women' and 'The Pathway'. They were to be subtitled 'A Tale of Childhood', 'A Tale of Boyhood', 'A Tale of Youth' and 'A Tale of Life' through in the event only the first of these was used. The four books were first published respectively in 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1928; the tetralogy was first issued in a single volume in 1936. The present texts are as follows: first volume (second text, revised), second volume (second text, rewritten), third volume (second text, revised), fourth volume (second text, revised). Regarding the first volume, Matthews states that 'some advance review copies have an error on p.62…corrected in the published edition'. This error is present here, but Matthews makes no mention of the fact. EXTREMELY SCARCE AS A SET IN THE LIMITED EDITION. Matthews, A1 1929a(ii), A3 1930a(ii), A5 1931a(ii), and A9 1931b.