CUALA PRESS: TOLHURST, Rogers.

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In the Emperor's Garden and Other Poems. First edition, first impression, one of 50 copies. Recorded in the colophon as "privately printed for the author", this title is one of the few books published by the Cuala Press that Miller designates "other pieces printed at the press" and not part of the standard series. This title appears to be the author's only publication and copies are rare.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. Lolly Yeats was his closest female friend.

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