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[YEATS, W.B.] - DUN EMER AND CUALA PRESS. Discoveries; A Volume of Essays by William Butler Yeats. Dundrum: Dun Emer Press, 1907. 8° in 4's (210 x 145mm.). Limitation leaf, title with wood-engraved printers device, final printers leaf (final few leaves lightly spotted). Original buckram-backed boards, uncut (edges rubbed). One of 200 copies, this a PRESENTATION COPY to Maud Gonne, inscribed by the author; together with four other works by Yeats, George Russell and Douglas Hyde from the Dun Emer Press comprising In the Seven Woods. 1903. One of 300 copies; Stories of Red Hanrahan. 1904. One of 500 copies; By Still Waters: Lyrical poems old and new by A.E.. 1906. One of 200 copies; The Love Songs of Connacht being the Fourth Chapter..collected and translated by Douglas Hyde. 1904. One of 300 copies. All in original buckram and buckram-backed boards, uncut (buckram slightly soiled, endpapers browned). - A Collection of 24 works published by the Cuala Press. Dundrum and Dublin: Cuala Press, 1908-40. 8°. Original buckram-backed grey or blue boards, uncut, one in original wrappers, 2 with dust-jackets (one torn), 7 with tissue wrappers (buckram slightly discoloured, several spine-labels chipped), several unopened. Limited editions.
The Dun Emer Press was founded by Yeats' sisters, Elizabeth and Lily, in the autumn of 1902 at Dundrum, Co. Dublin, their object to provide training and employment to Irish girls. In 1908 the press moved to larger quarters at Churchtown, Dundrum and changed it's name to Cuala, and later in 1924 moved to Merrion Square, Dublin. This interesting collection of 24 works from the Cuala Press comprises 21 works by W.B.Yeats (including two duplicates); together with 3 works by other authors; Masefield's Some Memories of W.B.Yeats, 1940. Number 117 of 370 copies; Higgins, F.R. Arable Holdings, 1933. One of 300 copies; O'Connor, F. Lords and Commons, 1937. One of 250 copies. The Yeats works include: Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W.B.Yeats and Lionel Johnson. 1908. One of 250 copies, Bookplate of Margaret Griselda Fremantle; Two Plays for Dancers. 1919. Unopened. One of 400 copies; A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats. 1913. Unopened. One of 300 copies; Seven Poems and a Fragment. 1922. Unopened. One of 500 copies. Paper dust-wrapper, with an Irish parcel post form, filled in by Yeats, undated,for sending a copy of the 'Book 7 Poems' to Oxford, England, sent by Yeats from 'Riverside, Willbrook, Rathfarnsham, Nr Dublin', together with a 4pp list of Cuala Press books, priced, for 1903-21, the two loosely inserted. (29)
The Dun Emer Press was founded by Yeats' sisters, Elizabeth and Lily, in the autumn of 1902 at Dundrum, Co. Dublin, their object to provide training and employment to Irish girls. In 1908 the press moved to larger quarters at Churchtown, Dundrum and changed it's name to Cuala, and later in 1924 moved to Merrion Square, Dublin. This interesting collection of 24 works from the Cuala Press comprises 21 works by W.B.Yeats (including two duplicates); together with 3 works by other authors; Masefield's Some Memories of W.B.Yeats, 1940. Number 117 of 370 copies; Higgins, F.R. Arable Holdings, 1933. One of 300 copies; O'Connor, F. Lords and Commons, 1937. One of 250 copies. The Yeats works include: Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W.B.Yeats and Lionel Johnson. 1908. One of 250 copies, Bookplate of Margaret Griselda Fremantle; Two Plays for Dancers. 1919. Unopened. One of 400 copies; A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats. 1913. Unopened. One of 300 copies; Seven Poems and a Fragment. 1922. Unopened. One of 500 copies. Paper dust-wrapper, with an Irish parcel post form, filled in by Yeats, undated,for sending a copy of the 'Book 7 Poems' to Oxford, England, sent by Yeats from 'Riverside, Willbrook, Rathfarnsham, Nr Dublin', together with a 4pp list of Cuala Press books, priced, for 1903-21, the two loosely inserted. (29)