New Poems: By W. B. Yeats

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1938. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with blue paper over boards. Blue endpapers. Illustrated title page. The boards are dampstained, particularly the rear board (the paper has bubbled a bit). The book is internally free of dampstaining. One in an edition limited to 450. The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903. The Press, founded by Evelyn Gleeson and influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W. B. Yeats took over the press, continuing her work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. The Press eventually closed in 1973.