Cuala Press - Yeats, W.B.
£688
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
In the seven woods. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1903. First edition, 8vo., original off white linen boards, printed paper label on the upper board, uncut and unopened, boards a little dusty, offsetting to the endpapers
Footnote
Note: Miller 1; Wade 49. The first book from the Cuala Press under the Dun Emer imprint which was used for the first eleven books when the press was part of Evelyn Gleeson's Dun Emer Industries. 325 copies were printed.
"The Cuala Press is unique among literary private presses. Its de facto editor was W.B. Yeats and the majority of its publications were wholly or in part written by him, but it was run by his sisters Lily and Lolly (Elizabeth). It effectively became the house publisher for the Irish literary revival, and was a pioneer of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement. It maintained the highest typographic standards and from the outset a distinctive house style under the influence of Emery Walker, one of the great printers of the period. " (M. M. Gatch & Ed Maggs A Little Dust: the Gatch collection of Yeats, 2012, p.23)