donaghy lyle (7 risultati)

Ephemera. Condizione: Poor. Externally poor/staple rust/but internally despite some damp stains. Fair. Scarce.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. pp. 23. Blue printed wrappers. First Edition, one of 300 copies being Number Six of the Tower Press Booklets. Wear and loss to top of spine to front and rear of wrapper which overhangs the book, internally clean.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 32pp. Flexible brown printed card wrappers. Publisher's early rubberstamp price on front cover, moderate wear and soiling on covers, bottom third of paper spine perished, else a very good copy of a fragile publication.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 86, [1] p. colophon, blanks. Quarter sand cloth over brown paper boards, with lettering to the front board and paper label to spine. Spine ends a touch bumped, front board at upper corner with light bump and scuff and the paper spine label with some light deterioration at the edges. Previous owner's signature to first blank, else clean and unmarked throughout. The glassine wrapper present, but in poor condition and heavily chipped. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Signed by Lyle Donaghy. Signed by Author(s).

text in black with one page in red text, with vignette on title, also notice of limited edition etc in red text single owners name on flyleaf,board covers cloth spine v.g.

First edition, one of 100 copies of Donaghy's first collection, privately printed for the author. His poetry, "demonstrated a predilection for nature themes and echoed the northern landscape of his youth" (DIB). He later featured regularly in the Irish Times, published several collections, and was praised by Samuel Beckett in the 1934 essay "Recent Irish Poetry". The Cuala Press was one half of Cuala Industries, a co-operative business run by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats. Cuala Industries was founded with the aim of reviving the craft of book printing in Ireland and "to give work to Irish girls" (McMurtrie, p. 472). In 1925, it moved to a premises in Dublin which allowed extra space to take on privately printed editions such as this. The press's "clearly legible, slender volumes with their distinctive paper labels may be seen as the sole survivors of the handcrafted ideal established in 1900 by Walker and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's Doves Press" (ODNB). 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. Elizabeth Yeats was his closest female friend. Douglas McMurtrie, The Book: The Story of Printing and Bookmaking, 1943. Octavo. Title page vignette designed by Jack Yeats, colophon printed in red. Original quarter linen, paper label to spine printed in black, blue paper boards, front cover lettered in black, blue endpapers, edges untrimmed. Spine label chipped, affecting a couple of letters, board edges toned, contents clean: a very good copy.

Condizione: Rare V.G. p.p. 8 - 81. Limited edition of only two hundred copies. Original quarter linen tan boards. Paper label on spine. Attractive printing.