Lot 731
Cuala Press - W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F. Higgins and others
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Broadsides: a collection of old and new songs. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1935. Folio, hand coloured illustrations, original quarter linen, blue boards, matching blue endpapers, printed paper label, very slight internal cracking, some spotting of the fore-edges, with the armorial McInerney bookplate, one of 100 copies, signed by Yeats and Higgins; [AND] Broadsides: a collection of new Irish and English songs. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1937. Folio, hand coloured illustrations, with errata sheet, original quarter linen, blue boards, matching blue endpapers, printed paper label, slight staining where the linen meets the paper boards, slight wrinkling to the surface of the upper board, signed by Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, one of 150 copies (2)
Footnote
Note: Miller 55 & 58; Wade 249 & 254. Bound up with special preliminary essays from two series of twelve broadsides originally issued monthly and themselves limited to 300 copies for each series. Other contributors include Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Frank O'Connor, Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, etc. The hand coloured illustrations are by Jack Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff & Maurice McGonigal. The music is by W. Turner, Arthur Duff, Edmund Dulac etc.