Very scarce in this condition

Yeats, W.B. ~ In The Seven Woods – Being Poems Chiefly Of The Irish Heroic Age : With A Scarce ‘Dun Emer Press’ 1904 Prospectus Referring To This Title

The Dun Emer Press, Dundrum : 1903

The First printing published by The Dun Emer Press, Dundrum in 1903. One of only 325 copies and the first publication of the Dun Emer Press, run by Yeats sister Elizabeth. The BOOK is in remarkable near Fine condition with the original publisher's pale linen covered boards, with a printed paper label to the front board. The cloth remains very bright with only slight discolouration, and bubbling to the cloth edges as usually encountered. Internally clean and bright with light offsetting to the prelims and the occasional light spotting to a few pages. The rear cover and flap of the fragile plain paper wrapper is loosely inserted to the rear. The detached front flap also survives. There are some losses and creasing to the wrapper remnant. The spare title label is present as issued, and is loosely inserted to the rear. The colophon states : 'Here ends In The Seven Woods, written by William Butler Yeats, printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum in the county of Dublin, Ireland, finished the sixteenth day of July, in the year of the big wind 1903'. The collection was reprinted in 1906 in 'Poems, 1899-1905' with two additions. 'Old Memory' and 'Never Give all the Heart' appear directly after 'The Folly of being Comforted'. The Dun Emer Press ran from 1902?1908 and was an Irish private press founded in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson, Elizabeth Yeats and her brother William Butler Yeats, part of the Celtic Revival. It was named after the legendary Emer and subsequently evolved into the Cuala Press. Loosely laid in is a 4 page 1904 Dun Emer Prospectus (3 pages unprinted) which refers to the first two books published by the Press and which also explains the reasons for establishing the Dun Emer Press. The book is protected in a loose Mylar archival cover. An exceptional copy.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine