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54.CRESSET PRESS. WARNER, Sylvia Townsend. Elinor Barley. The Cresset Press Limited 1930.
£148
4to., original parchment-backed marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, with illustrations in dry point by I.R. Hodgkins. A very good copy.
Limited edition of 350 numbered copies, signed by the author.
55. CRESSET PRESS. JOHNSON, A.F. Decorative Initial Letters. The Cresset Press, 1931.
£225
Folio. Original blue cloth, gilt, attractively printed dj, torn with some loss at the extremities, top edges gilt; pp. xxiii, 247, [1], illustrated throughout with b/w examples handsomely printed in black or black and red; ex-libris Dartington Hall Library with their neat ‘withdrawn’ stamp to the recto of the ffep, internally a very good, bright copy.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. This copy numbered 141. Printed at the Curwen Press.
56. CRESSET PRESS. MARKS, Herbert H. Pax Obbligato. The Cresset Press. [1937].
£50
8vo., original yellow cloth with dust wrapper with design by John Farleigh. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by John Farleigh. Wrapper with a couple of small tears and slightly darkened on spine otherwise a very good copy.
First edition.
57. CRESSET PRESS. BROCKLEBANK, Lieut Colonel Hugh, DSO. A Turn Or Two I’ll Walk To Still My Beating Mind. Commentary on a private collection. The Cresset Press, 1955. £30
4to, original buckram-backed boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; title and headings printed in red and black, black and white plates; a very nice copy; inscribed from ‘the author’.
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58. CUALA PRESS. YEATS, Jack Butler (artist). A Broadside.A collection of nine broadsides, published in a limited edition of 300 copies. This group date from July 1912 – October 1913; from the first of three series, and include the numbers 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 &12 from the fifth year; and 1, 3 & 5 from the sixth year. Double broadside measures 280 x 380 mm.
£1,900
A Broadside was a monthly publication produced by Elizabeth Yeats and illustrated by Jack Yeats with the written contributions and later editorial management from William Butler Yeats. It was published by Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, County Dublin.
The publication followed a folio format with Caslon 14 point typeface, and was printed on an Albion hand press. Contained in the pages are ballads, contemporary poems and prints, of which there were usually three illustrations; one on each page, with typically two hand-coloured by Jack. All nine are in very good condition.
John [Jack] Butler Yeats (1871-1957) is today regarded as one of the great Irish artists of his time. Son to the Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839- 1922) and Susan Mary Pollexfen (1841-1900), he was the youngest of four surviving siblings, including the poet and Nobel Prize winner William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Yeats was a painter, printmaker, illustrator and writer, and his themes surrounded the life, landscape and culture of the west of Ireland, peasants, farming and national identity.
Much of his early life was spent either in London, where he was born, and Sligo, where his maternal grandparents lived. Yeats attended university in London, first at the South Kensington School of Art, enrolling in 1887, as well as at Chiswick Scholl of Art, Bedford Park, West London Art School and Westminster School of Art. While still in education Yeats sold illustrations to various publications as a means of contributing to the family’s income.
In 1894 he married a former fellow student Mary Cottenham White (known to her friends as Cottie), and not long after held his first exhibition in 1897 in London’s Clifford Galleries. This exhibition, made up of mainly drawings and watercolours received positive reviews, as did his opening exhibition in Dublin just two years later.
Yeats and his Cottie moved to Ireland in 1910 and became somewhat involved in the Irish literary revival in Dublin. Eventually his two sisters Susan Mary (Lily) and Elizabeth Corbet (Lollie) joined them, as did their father. The sisters were instrumental in founding the private printing press Dun Emer Guild and then Cuala Press, which both the brothers Jack and William were involved.
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Bruce Arnold, ‘Yeats, John Butler (1871–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University
Press, 2004 [
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37060, accessed 20 June 2011]
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