YEATS, W. B.

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The Wild Swans at Coole. First edition, one of 400 copies of the poet's major collection, including the title poem and "On Being Asked for a War Poem" (p. 16), his most enduring poem on the First World War.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). The collection also includes the one-act play "At the Hawk's Well", first performed in 1916.

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