Lot 138
  • 138

Cuala Press--Yeats, W.B.

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Description

  • Poems Written in Discouragement... Dublin: Cuala Press, 1913
4to, [one of 50 copies], final two leaves unopened, original dark grey wrappers, some minor browning and soiling to wrappers

Provenance

from the library of Lily Yeats

Literature

Miller p.127; Wade 107

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The first privately printed volume of W.B. Yeats published by the Cuala Press. Copies were not for sale.