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Books 179 Book of Kells, facsimile. A facsimile copy of The Book of Kells with a study of the manuscript by Francoise Henry, Thames & Hudson, 1974. Gilt orange cloth, in slip case. Estimate €120-€180 (approx £110-£160) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 179 180 1945-1978 A collection of booklets and pamphlets of Irish literary and political interest. YEATS ( Elizabeth Corbet ) : -. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Born March 11th. 1868. Died January 16th. 1940 (Dublin : The Cuala Press. FIRST EDITION, (4)-pages, 8vo, sewn in oversized original printed paper wrappers : the wrappers slightly worn, but otherwise a very good copy..ALSOWITH THIS LOT: (1) YEATS ( Wm. B. ). Diarmuid and Grania. A play in three acts. By George Moore andW. B. Yeats. [in : The Dublin Magazine. Vol. XXVI. No.2 April - June 1951]. (Dublin) 1951. (2) CORRIGAN (Aidan) Eye-Witness in Northern Ireland. (Printed and published by the Voice of Ulster Publications) [1969]. FIRST EDITION, 36-pp, 8vo, According to an anonymous pamphlet, “Fianna Fail - The IRA Connection”, published in the early 1970s, this booklet in fact printed in Dublin by the Cityview Press in 1969 and financed by the Government Information Bureau of the Republic of Ireland. (3) THOMAS (Ronald S.). Not That He Brought Flowers 1968. Edition (4) JOYCE ( James ). Corrections of misprints in Finnegans Wake. By James Joyce.. As prepared by the author after publication of the first edition. New York : The Viking Press (5) KENNELLY (Brendan ) & HOLZAPFEL ( Rudi ). The dark about our loves [: verse]. [Dublin : no publisher] Printed by John Augustine and Company [1962]. Inscribed on half-title “To Derry / ‘Immortal Diamond’ / from Brendan / 20/12/62”. (6) [BERKELEY ( George )]. Maxims concerning Patriotism. By a Lady. Dublin : Printed in the Year MDCCL. Dublin : Trinity Closet Press, Reprint Series I, 1978. One of 250 numbered copies. Only three copies of the original edition are known. (7) [RUSSELL ( George )]. The inner and the outer Ireland. Dublin : Talbot, 1921. “Reprinted by permission from Pearson’s Magazine, U.S.A.”(7) Provenance Whyte’s, James Fenning Sale, 19 & 20 October 2012, lot 1417; Whence purchased by the present owner This appreciation of the life and work of Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer/Cuala Press enterprise was written and issued by her sister Lilly Yeats. The memoir was set, printed and bound by Mairie Gill and Esther Ryan, two highly competent presswomen, who had worked at the Press with Elizabeth for over thirty years. Although no publication date is given, the text is dated February 1st 1940. Liam Miller, in The Dun Emer Press, Later the Cuala Press (1973), states that the printing of an edition of 550 copies was finished in mid- February. Estimate €150-€250 (approx £130-£220) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 180

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