CUALA PRESS: YEATS, W. B.

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Seven Poems and a Fragment. First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies. This collection contains poems such as "All Souls' Night" and "Nineteen-Hundred and Nineteen", here entitled "Thoughts upon the Present State of the World".The Cuala Press was one half of Cuala Industries, a co-operative business run by Yeats's sisters Lily and Elizabeth. Cuala Industries was founded with the aim of reviving the craft of book printing in Ireland and "to give work to Irish girls" (McMurtrie, p. 472). The press's "clearly legible, slender volumes with their distinctive paper labels may be seen as the sole survivors of the handcrafted ideal established in 1900 by Walker and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's Doves Press" (ODNB).

• Printing: first

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