Lot 718
Cuala Press - Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Responsibilities: poems and a play. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1914. First edition, 8vo., printer's device on the titlepage, quarter linen, grey coloured paper boards with matching endpapers, uncut, and unopened, binder's label of Galwey & Co, Dublin, small stain to the outer corner of last leaf of prelims
Footnote
Note: Miller 20; Wade 110; Connolly 24. No 109 of 400 copies. "The dedicatory poem of the collection, addressed to Yeats's ancestors, is a riposte to George Moore's unsympathetic portrayal of him in his memoirs Hale and Farewell It is [in] this poem which T.S. Eliot identifies the beginnings of Yeats's true greatness when "in beginning to speak as a particular man he is beginning to speak for man." (M. M. Gatch & Ed Maggs A Little dust: the Gatch collection of Yeats, 2012, p.16)