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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, many hand-colored. Printed on cartridge paper made at Saggart Mill in County Dublin, text in handset Caslon type. 84 numbers in all. 3 vols. Small folio (11 x 7-1/2 inches). Complete! – Hugh Walpole's copies. In 3 blue linen portfolios with upper covers with hand-colored pictorial label after design by Jack B. Yeats. Very light and very scattered spotting in a few volumes, but overall near fine. The first two sets have Hugh Walpole's Brackenburn bookplate, the third portfolio likely supplied. Miller pp. 120-121.

Item #339422

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.

Extensive runs are uncommon.