Lot 725
Cuala Press - Gogarty, Oliver
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
An offering of swans. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1923. First edition, 8vo., woodcut device on the titlepage, original quarter linen, blue grey paper boards, uncut and unopened, slight fading of the boards, offsetting to the endpapers, one of 300 copies. (Miller 34; Wade 273, the first title to be issued from Merion Square, Dublin); Yeats, W.B. The cat and the moon and certain poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo., woodcut device in red on the titlepage, original quarter linen, blue grey paper boards, uncut, boards a little dusty, light offsetting to the endpapers, bookplate of Declan O'Riordan, one of 400 copies. (Miller 35; Wade 145, describing the print run as 500); [Idem] The bounty of Sweden: a meditation, and a lecture delivered before the Royal Swedish Academy and certain notes. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1925. First edition, 8vo., wood device in red on the titlepage, original quarter linen, blue grey paper boards, uncut, boards a little dusty, offsetting to the endpapers, uncut and unopened, one of 400 copies. (Miller 36; Wade 146); Flower, Robin Love's bitter-sweet: translations from the Irish poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1925. First edition, 8vo., woodcut device on the titlepage of a lone tree from a line drawing by Elizabeth Yeats, original quarter linen, blue grey paper boards, uncut ,boards a little dusty, offsetting to the endpapers, with McInerney armorial bookplate, uncut, one of 500 copies (Miller 37) (4)
Footnote
Note: An Offering of Swans and The Cat and the Moon were both printed in the basement of 82 Merion Square to where the Press had moved after the lapse of the lease of the cottage at Dundrum. After two years in Merion Square the press and the rest of the stock moved to 133 Upper Baggot Street, which was the press's home until the death of Elizabeth Yeats, with The Bounty of Sweden being the first book issued at the new address. (Clifford Lewis The Yeats sisters and the Cuala, 1994, p. 166)