Lot 713
Cuala Press - Tynan, Katharine
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Twenty one poems; selected by W.B. Yeats. The Dun Emer Press, 1907. First edition thus, 8vo., printer's device on the titlepage, woodcut by Elinor Monsell, quarter linen, blue grey boards with matching endpapers, uncut, covers a little dusty, edges knocked, offsetting to endpapers; Yeats, W.B. Discoveries: a volume of essays. The Dun Emer Press, 1907. First edition, 8vo., with woodcut of charging unicorn on the titlepage in black, quarter linen, blue grey boards with matching endpapers, uncut, offsetting to endpapers (2)
Footnote
Note: 1. Miller 10; Wade 238. One of 200 copies. The colophon bears for the first time the staff of the Press, Esther Ryan and Beatrice Cassidy, a practice followed in succeeding books. The Dun Emer device appears for the first time on the titlepage. 2. Miller 11, describing the circular wood cut by Robert Gregory as being printed in red; Wade 72. One of 200 copies. The only other publication with Dun Emer imprint after this was the first number of the first series of A Broadside, June 1908.