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Dun Emer/Cuala Press.- [Russell (George)], "A.E.". The Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems Old and New, [one of 200 copies], signed with 3 verses by the author and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson on front free endpaper, and with another inscription [?by Gleeson] on rear endpaper, endpapers browned, Dundrum, Dun Emer Press, 1903 § Flower (Robin, translator) Love's Bitter-Sweet: Translations from the Irish poets..., one of 500 copies, with A.L.s. from Elizabeth Corbet Yeats "...we intended to have [the book] out earlier...but the wet weather in some way kept back the drying of the ink...that is one of the many troubles of printing like ours - we use pure ink & it takes ages & ages to dry..." loosely inserted, Dublin, Cuala Press, 1925, printed in red & black, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, spines a little browned, the first slightly frayed at head; and 10 others from the press, one or two signed, a few ex-library copies, 8vo (12)

⁂ The colophon of the first states that the book was "...written by A.E....published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum...".

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Dun Emer/Cuala Press.- Russell (George) The Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems Old and New, [one of 200 copies], signed with 3 verses by the author and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson, Dundrum, 1903 & others from the press (12)  

Hammer Price: £1,000

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Dun Emer/Cuala Press.- [Russell (George)], "A.E.". The Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems Old and New, [one of 200 copies], signed with 3 verses by the author and Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Evelyn Gleeson on front free endpaper, and with another inscription [?by Gleeson] on rear endpaper, endpapers browned, Dundrum, Dun Emer Press, 1903 § Flower (Robin, translator) Love's Bitter-Sweet: Translations from the Irish poets..., one of 500 copies, with A.L.s. from Elizabeth Corbet Yeats "...we intended to have [the book] out earlier...but the wet weather in some way kept back the drying of the ink...that is one of the many troubles of printing like ours - we use pure ink & it takes ages & ages to dry..." loosely inserted, Dublin, Cuala Press, 1925, printed in red & black, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, spines a little browned, the first slightly frayed at head; and 10 others from the press, one or two signed, a few ex-library copies, 8vo (12)

⁂ The colophon of the first states that the book was "...written by A.E....published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum...".

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