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 in March 1907. A four-page prospectus for the Press issued in May 1907 is loosely inserted. 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 is from the library of Louis Claude Purser (1854-1932), brother of the artist Sarah Purser. A fellow classics student with Oscar Wilde at school, Purser was appointed professor of Latin at Trinity College, Dublin, and later served as president of the Royal Irish Academy. Elizabeth Yeats was his closest female friend.

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