Beschreibung:

THE CUALA PRESS -- A collection of 15 books by William Butler Yeats and John Butler Yeats printed at The Cuala Press, comprising: Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904, ONE OF 500 COPIES, manuscript one-page poem signed "Eric" loosely-inserted), The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, ONE OF 400 COPIES), Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Ezra Pound (1917, ONE OF 400 COPIES), Further Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Lennox Robinson (1920, ONE OF 400 COPIES), Four Years (1921, ONE OF 400 COPIES, SIGNED BY YEATS ON THE TITLE), The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems (1924, ONE OF 500 COPIES), The Bounty of Sweden (1925, ONE OF 400 COPIES), The Death of Synge (1928, ONE OF 400 COPIES), Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932, ONE OF 450 COPIES), The Words upon the Window Pane (1934, ONE OF 350 COPIES, with acetate jacket), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934, ONE OF 400 COPIES, with acetate jacket), Last Poems and Two Plays (1939, ONE OF 500 COPIES, with acetate jacket), If I Were Four-and-Twenty (1940, NUMBER 422 OF 450 COPIES, with acetate jacket), Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats (1941, NUMBER 123 OF 500 COPIES) and Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944, NUMBER 139 OF 280 COPIES). The Cuala Press was founded, as the Dun Emer Press, by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Lily Yeats (sisters of William Butler Yeats) in 1902. Its original object was to stimulate Irish industries and to train and employ Irish girls: the press was unusual in that it was staffed entirely by women. Until it ceased operation in the late 1940s it followed a program of printing works by contemporary Irish authors in addition to new editions and translations of Irish classics. (15)