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Yeats.In the Seven Woods,1/325,1st,Cuala,1903

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first edition, one of 325 copies, printed in red and black, first prospectus from the Press dated April 1904 and a pamphlet on the Dun Emer Industries loosely inserted, the first with ms. note "'The Love Songs' will be ready next week" at foot, endpapers a little browned, "D.E.P./Y." in ink in lower inner corner of front pastedown, endpapers a little browned, original cream linen, paper label printed in red on upper cover, uncut and unopened, rather spotted and browned, [Miller 1; Wade 49], 8vo, Dundrum, Dun Emer Press, "finished the sixteenth day of July, in the year of the big wind" 1903.

***James Joyce refers to the Press in Ulysses, parodying the colophon, "Five lines of text and ten pages of notes about the folk and the fishgods of Dundrum. Printed by the weird sisters in the year of the big wind.".

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