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Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915.

Price: $12,500.00

About the item

One of 300 copies. Illustrations after drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Printed on cartridge paper made at Saggart Mill in County Dublin, text in handset Caslon type. Lacking No. 10, Second Year, for March 1910. Small folio (11 x 7-1/2 inches). Condition generally fine. A few numbers with repairs to margins on blank verso (one part with a corner supplied, not touching image). Cloth portfolio, upper cover with pictorial label after design by Jack B. Yeats, recent black morocco spine, to house the entire series. In half blue morocco slipcase. Miller pp. 120-121.

Item #265275

The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. The present set lacks one number. The second and third series date from 1935-1937.
Extensive runs are uncommon.