CUALA PRESS: YEATS, W. B.

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October Blast. First edition, first impression, one of 350 copies printed by Elizabeth Yeats in June 1927 and released in August. The collection contains the first appearance in print of the author's celebrated poems "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Among School Children", and also contains "The Tower", first published in The Criterion in June 1927. The Cuala Press was one half of Cuala Industries, a co-operative business run by Lily and Elizabeth 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). In 1925 it moved to a premises in Dublin which, for the first time, allowed a showroom to display the business's books, prints, cards, and embroideries. 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).

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