DUN EMER PRESS: TYNAN, Katherine.

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Twenty One Poems: Selected by W. B. Yeats. First edition, first impression, one of 200 copies printed by Elizabeth Yeats, Esther Ryan, and Beatrice Cassidy in March 1907. The tenth book published by the press, it was the first to include the printer's names in the colophon and the vignette of Lady Emer, designed by Elinor Darwin née Monsell on the title page.The Dun Emer Press was named for co-founder Evelyn Gleeson's home in Dundrum, near Dublin. The press, established with Lily and Elizabeth Yeats in late 1902, ran alongside an embroidery and rug making workshop. Eleven titles were released under the Dun Emer imprint, which was renamed the Cuala Press when the Yeats sisters split from Gleeson in 1908. Katharine Tynan (1859-1931) was a major contributor to the Irish literary revival. Her prolific output includes autobiographical volumes, near 100 novels (primarily written for a female audience and playing with tropes of romance and the gothic), journalistic articles on social, political, and gender issues, and an abundance of poetry.This copy has the bookplate, designed by Jack Yeats in November 1953, of Eleanor and Fred Reid. Eleanor de Bretteville Reid (1909-1993) was an American psychologist and pianist. She purchased her first painting of Jack Yeats, "Lafitte the Pirate", in 1949, and soon began a correspondence with him, requesting information about Cuala Press and Dun Emer books. Much of this correspondence and her related ephemera is now held by the National Gallery o

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