Author: Yeats, W.B.
Title: Cuala Press Collection of 82 Books and Broadsides
Description: Ireland, Dun Emer Press and Cuala Press, Various. Mixed. Near complete collection, with only 7 of the original issues here in their reissued form when the Cuala press "rebooted" during the 1970s by Liam Miller, Thomas Kinsella and others * REPRINTS 1. A Book of Saints and Wonders 2. Discoveries by W.B. Yeats **REPRINTS 1. The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910 2. A Selection from the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats, 1913 3. The Wild Swans at Coole, 1917 4. Broadsides. A Collection of old and New Songs, 1935 5. Broadsides. A Collection of new Irish and English Songs, 1937 Highlights: 1. In the Seven Woods (Miller 1) Dun Emer's first publication 2. By Still Waters by AE (Miller 8) includes inscription "To George A. Hammond from Elizabeth C.Yeats Christmas 1906" 3. The Words Upon the Windowpane (Miller 52) includes a note from Elizabeth C. Yeats to Richard Hayward on Cuala Press stationary 4. Broadside Characters 5. Stories of Red Hanrahan, Dun Emer Press, 6. Discoveries: A Volume of Essays 7. A Broadside, complete second series, 1935 The most comprehensive gathering of Dun Emer and Cuala Press items to appear as a collection in many decades. While it is still possible to purchase individual titles, or occasionally groupings of titles from other dealers, the opportunity to gather most of the issues of this early twentieth-century women-owned-and-operated press, the likelihood of happening across such a comprehensive collection of this important press in our lifetimes, is small. Most of the books were published in limited numbers ranging from 200 to 500 copies, the few exceptions being during the Press's "revival" period which began in the 1970s. Seven among this group (of books) were issued later, during this Revival period. "The Dun Emer Industries were established at Dundrum County Dublin in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson ‘to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things.' ..the Industries originally involved doing fine embroidery on Irish linen, the weaving of tapestry and carpets and the printing of books by hand. A bookbinding workshop was added later. Dun Emer employed only women, and was concerned with the education of working class girls who were taught to paint "and their brains and fingers ..made more active and understanding." Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and her sister Lily returned from London..and in 1903 Elizabeth founded the Dun Emer Press.. (Their brother) W.B. (William Butler) Yeats acted as editorial adviser..The typeface chosen for the Press was Caslon and .. printing was done on an Albion hand press .. built in .. a special paper was made at the Swiftbrook Mills at Saggart in County Dublin for all the regular books printed at the Press. The format of the books was a small quarto, with a page size of 8 ¼" x 5 ¾ , and with the exception of the first, were issued in colored boards with an Irish linen spine. Printing of the first book was completed on 16 July 1903. This was ‘In the Seven Woods', a collection of new poetry by W.B. Yeats, together with his play ‘On Baile's Strand'. The edition consisted of 325 copies..[and] was the first of many books by living Irish writers to appear from the Press over the next forty-three years, almost thirty of them by W.B. Yeats. In 1908, the Yeats sisters separated their part of the Industries from Dun Emer, taking the embroidery and printing workshops with them, and naming the latter The Cuala (COO-a-lah) Press, after the Irish place name for the south County Dublin Barony (in Churchtown, near Dundrum) to which they had moved. Although few of the books were illustrated, most of them had one or more decorative devices usually on the title page..In addition to books, three series of "A Broadside" were produced, featuring ballad poetry or drawings by Jack B. Yeats and other artists. These were often hand-colored. The Press also published many hand-colored prints and greeting cards and accepted commissions for around thirty private editions, bookplates, etc. The press continued through the 1940's, through the death of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in 1940, and was taken over by George Yeats, (the wife of W.B.). After 20 years of inactivity, it was revived in 1969 by Liam Miller, Thomas Kinsella and others. Available as a lot only. BOOKS (82 Count) In the Seven Woods; The Nuts of Knowledge; The Love Songs of Connacht; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Twenty One Poems by Lionel Johnson; Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton; Sixteen Poems by William Allingham;A Book of Saints and Wonders by Lady Gregory;By Still Waters by AE; Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan; Discoveries by W.B. Yeats; Poetry and Ireland by W.B. Yeats; Poems and Translations by John M. Synge; Deirdre of the Sorrows by John M. Synge; The Green Helmet and Other Poems; Synge and the Ireland of his Time by W.B. Yeats; Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; A Selection from the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats; A Woman's Reliquary; Responsibilities by W.B. Yeats; The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore; John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections; Reveries Over Childhood and Youth; Plates to Accompany Reveries; Certain Noble Plays of Japan; Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Kiltartan Poetry Book by Lady Gregory; Two Plays for Dancers; Further Letters of John Butler Yeats; Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Four Years by W.B. Yeats; Seven Poems and a Fragment; Early Memories by John Butler Yeats; An Offering of Swans; The Cat and the Moon; The Bounty of Sweden; Love's Bitter Sweet; Estrangement by W.B. Yeats; Poems by Thomas Parnell; October Blast by W.B. Yeats; The Death of Synge by W.B. Yeats; A Little Anthology of Modern Irish Verse; A Packet for Ezra Pound; Lyrics and Satires from Tom Moore; Wild Apples by Oliver Gogarty; Coole by Lady Gregory; Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends; The Wild Bird's Nest; Words for Music Perhaps; Pilgrimage in the West; Arable Holdings; The Words upon the Window Pane; The King of the Great Clock Tower; Dramatis Personae by W.B. Yeats; Broadsides. A Collection of old and New Songs.;Passages from the letters of AE to W.B. Yeats; Essays by W.B. Yeats; Broadsides. A Collection of new Irish and English Songs; New Poems by W.B. Yeats; Lords and Commons; Last Poems and Two Plays by W.B. Yeats; Elbow Room by Oliver Gogarty; The Last Ditch by Louise MacNeice; A Lament for Art O'Leary; If I were Four-And-Twenty; Some Memories of W.B. Yeats; Veterans and Other Poems; Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats; Three Tales by Frank O'Conner; The Great Hunger; Seven Winters; La La Noo by Jack B. Yeats; A Picture Book by Frank O'Conner; Dafydd Ap Gwylym: Selected Poems; Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty; The Love Story of Thomas Davis; Stranger in Aran; Reflections by W.B. Yeats; Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats; Notes from the Land of the Dead;Letters from Bedford Park ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A BROADSIDE (3 SERIES) A Broadside, First Series; A Broadside, Second Series, Nos. 1-12; A Broadside, Third Series, Nos. 2 and 9. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKLETS (10 Count) St.Patrick's Breastplate; St. Patrick's Breastplate; The Wren Boys; On the Boiler; Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; Be Thou My Vision; A Brief Account of the Cuala Press; A Little Book of Drawings; Broadside Characters; A List of Books Published by the Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS (38 Count) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNREFERENCED IN LIAM MILLER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE DUN EMER AND CUALA PRESSES A Fair House: Versions of Irish Poetry; The Speckled Bird by W.B. Yeats, 2 vol.; The Revenant; Something to Perfection Brought; Pressmarks and Devices used at the Dun Emer Press; From a Dark Lantern: A Journal by Arland Ussher; A Little Book of Bookplates by Jack B. Yeats, 1979 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTRA REPRINTS Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan; Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; A Lament for Art O'Leary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRINTS The Fiddler by Jack B. Yeats; The Fiddler of Dooney; There about the ways Gods air is free and spacious]; A Nursery Song for Christmas Eve; Into the Twilight Out-Worn Heart in a Time Out-Worn; Weather-wise; The Trees are in their Autumn Beauty; Silver ApplesS; ilver Apples (second copy); In summer time I foot the turf and lay the sods to dry; Be Glan of Life; The Star in the East;The Fiddler of Dooney; The Midland Toast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Collection Sold as a Lot Only. Ill.: Jack Yeats, and others. Very Good Plus .
Keywords: Small Irish Presses, William Butler Yeats, Arts and Crafts Movement, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge Jack Yeats, and Others
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Title: Cuala Press Collection of 82 Books and Broadsides
Description: Ireland, Dun Emer Press and Cuala Press, Various. Mixed. Near complete collection, with only 7 of the original issues here in their reissued form when the Cuala press "rebooted" during the 1970s by Liam Miller, Thomas Kinsella and others * REPRINTS 1. A Book of Saints and Wonders 2. Discoveries by W.B. Yeats **REPRINTS 1. The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910 2. A Selection from the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats, 1913 3. The Wild Swans at Coole, 1917 4. Broadsides. A Collection of old and New Songs, 1935 5. Broadsides. A Collection of new Irish and English Songs, 1937 Highlights: 1. In the Seven Woods (Miller 1) Dun Emer's first publication 2. By Still Waters by AE (Miller 8) includes inscription "To George A. Hammond from Elizabeth C.Yeats Christmas 1906" 3. The Words Upon the Windowpane (Miller 52) includes a note from Elizabeth C. Yeats to Richard Hayward on Cuala Press stationary 4. Broadside Characters 5. Stories of Red Hanrahan, Dun Emer Press, 6. Discoveries: A Volume of Essays 7. A Broadside, complete second series, 1935 The most comprehensive gathering of Dun Emer and Cuala Press items to appear as a collection in many decades. While it is still possible to purchase individual titles, or occasionally groupings of titles from other dealers, the opportunity to gather most of the issues of this early twentieth-century women-owned-and-operated press, the likelihood of happening across such a comprehensive collection of this important press in our lifetimes, is small. Most of the books were published in limited numbers ranging from 200 to 500 copies, the few exceptions being during the Press's "revival" period which began in the 1970s. Seven among this group (of books) were issued later, during this Revival period. "The Dun Emer Industries were established at Dundrum County Dublin in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson ‘to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things.' ..the Industries originally involved doing fine embroidery on Irish linen, the weaving of tapestry and carpets and the printing of books by hand. A bookbinding workshop was added later. Dun Emer employed only women, and was concerned with the education of working class girls who were taught to paint "and their brains and fingers ..made more active and understanding." Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and her sister Lily returned from London..and in 1903 Elizabeth founded the Dun Emer Press.. (Their brother) W.B. (William Butler) Yeats acted as editorial adviser..The typeface chosen for the Press was Caslon and .. printing was done on an Albion hand press .. built in .. a special paper was made at the Swiftbrook Mills at Saggart in County Dublin for all the regular books printed at the Press. The format of the books was a small quarto, with a page size of 8 ¼" x 5 ¾ , and with the exception of the first, were issued in colored boards with an Irish linen spine. Printing of the first book was completed on 16 July 1903. This was ‘In the Seven Woods', a collection of new poetry by W.B. Yeats, together with his play ‘On Baile's Strand'. The edition consisted of 325 copies..[and] was the first of many books by living Irish writers to appear from the Press over the next forty-three years, almost thirty of them by W.B. Yeats. In 1908, the Yeats sisters separated their part of the Industries from Dun Emer, taking the embroidery and printing workshops with them, and naming the latter The Cuala (COO-a-lah) Press, after the Irish place name for the south County Dublin Barony (in Churchtown, near Dundrum) to which they had moved. Although few of the books were illustrated, most of them had one or more decorative devices usually on the title page..In addition to books, three series of "A Broadside" were produced, featuring ballad poetry or drawings by Jack B. Yeats and other artists. These were often hand-colored. The Press also published many hand-colored prints and greeting cards and accepted commissions for around thirty private editions, bookplates, etc. The press continued through the 1940's, through the death of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in 1940, and was taken over by George Yeats, (the wife of W.B.). After 20 years of inactivity, it was revived in 1969 by Liam Miller, Thomas Kinsella and others. Available as a lot only. BOOKS (82 Count) In the Seven Woods; The Nuts of Knowledge; The Love Songs of Connacht; Stories of Red Hanrahan; Twenty One Poems by Lionel Johnson; Some Essays and Passages by John Eglinton; Sixteen Poems by William Allingham;A Book of Saints and Wonders by Lady Gregory;By Still Waters by AE; Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan; Discoveries by W.B. Yeats; Poetry and Ireland by W.B. Yeats; Poems and Translations by John M. Synge; Deirdre of the Sorrows by John M. Synge; The Green Helmet and Other Poems; Synge and the Ireland of his Time by W.B. Yeats; Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; A Selection from the Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats; A Woman's Reliquary; Responsibilities by W.B. Yeats; The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore; John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections; Reveries Over Childhood and Youth; Plates to Accompany Reveries; Certain Noble Plays of Japan; Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats; The Wild Swans at Coole; The Kiltartan Poetry Book by Lady Gregory; Two Plays for Dancers; Further Letters of John Butler Yeats; Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Four Years by W.B. Yeats; Seven Poems and a Fragment; Early Memories by John Butler Yeats; An Offering of Swans; The Cat and the Moon; The Bounty of Sweden; Love's Bitter Sweet; Estrangement by W.B. Yeats; Poems by Thomas Parnell; October Blast by W.B. Yeats; The Death of Synge by W.B. Yeats; A Little Anthology of Modern Irish Verse; A Packet for Ezra Pound; Lyrics and Satires from Tom Moore; Wild Apples by Oliver Gogarty; Coole by Lady Gregory; Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends; The Wild Bird's Nest; Words for Music Perhaps; Pilgrimage in the West; Arable Holdings; The Words upon the Window Pane; The King of the Great Clock Tower; Dramatis Personae by W.B. Yeats; Broadsides. A Collection of old and New Songs.;Passages from the letters of AE to W.B. Yeats; Essays by W.B. Yeats; Broadsides. A Collection of new Irish and English Songs; New Poems by W.B. Yeats; Lords and Commons; Last Poems and Two Plays by W.B. Yeats; Elbow Room by Oliver Gogarty; The Last Ditch by Louise MacNeice; A Lament for Art O'Leary; If I were Four-And-Twenty; Some Memories of W.B. Yeats; Veterans and Other Poems; Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W.B. Yeats; Three Tales by Frank O'Conner; The Great Hunger; Seven Winters; La La Noo by Jack B. Yeats; A Picture Book by Frank O'Conner; Dafydd Ap Gwylym: Selected Poems; Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty; The Love Story of Thomas Davis; Stranger in Aran; Reflections by W.B. Yeats; Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats; Notes from the Land of the Dead;Letters from Bedford Park ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A BROADSIDE (3 SERIES) A Broadside, First Series; A Broadside, Second Series, Nos. 1-12; A Broadside, Third Series, Nos. 2 and 9. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOKLETS (10 Count) St.Patrick's Breastplate; St. Patrick's Breastplate; The Wren Boys; On the Boiler; Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; Be Thou My Vision; A Brief Account of the Cuala Press; A Little Book of Drawings; Broadside Characters; A List of Books Published by the Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS (38 Count) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNREFERENCED IN LIAM MILLER'S BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE DUN EMER AND CUALA PRESSES A Fair House: Versions of Irish Poetry; The Speckled Bird by W.B. Yeats, 2 vol.; The Revenant; Something to Perfection Brought; Pressmarks and Devices used at the Dun Emer Press; From a Dark Lantern: A Journal by Arland Ussher; A Little Book of Bookplates by Jack B. Yeats, 1979 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTRA REPRINTS Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan; Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsany; A Lament for Art O'Leary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRINTS The Fiddler by Jack B. Yeats; The Fiddler of Dooney; There about the ways Gods air is free and spacious]; A Nursery Song for Christmas Eve; Into the Twilight Out-Worn Heart in a Time Out-Worn; Weather-wise; The Trees are in their Autumn Beauty; Silver ApplesS; ilver Apples (second copy); In summer time I foot the turf and lay the sods to dry; Be Glan of Life; The Star in the East;The Fiddler of Dooney; The Midland Toast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Collection Sold as a Lot Only. Ill.: Jack Yeats, and others. Very Good Plus .
Keywords: Small Irish Presses, William Butler Yeats, Arts and Crafts Movement, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge Jack Yeats, and Others
Price: US$ 70000.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 84994
- Book number: 84994
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