CUALA PRESS: YEATS, W. B.

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Responsibilities: First edition, first impression, number 341 of 400 copies numbered by Elizabeth Yeats. This collection includes "September, 1913" and "The Cold Heaven": "in these poems Yeats, influenced by his young secretary Pound, breaks away from his early manner and begins to purge his imagery of abstraction and to write more simply and directly" (Connolly).This copy does not include the errata slip. Wade notes that his own copy, "bought on publication direct from Mrs Yeats, had no slip, and no other collectors I have asked have seen it; I think, therefore, that it was only inserted in copies which remained after subscribers' demands had been met" (Wade, p. 114).The Cuala Press was one half of Cuala Industries, a co-operative business run by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats. 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).Provenance: from the library of the bibliophile and journalist Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), this copy number 1202 in the memorial catalogue of his library published in 1951. Jackson wrote several works on the history of printing and the private press movement, including William Morris: Craftsman-Socialist (1908), A Brief Survey of Printing Histor

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