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  Private Press Information in University of Missouri Special Collections
Colt Press was established in 1938 by Jane Grabhorn (wife of Robert Grabhorn of the Grabhorn Press).
Cuala press was the continuation of the Dun Emer Press founded by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats, the sisters of William Butler Yeats.
Dun Emer Press was founded by the Yeats family as part of Evelyn Gleeson's Dun Emer Industries at her house outside Dundrum, Ireland.
mulibraries.missouri.edu /specialcollections/privatepresscd.htm   (3051 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for press
Doves Press, one of the leaders in the revival of the art and craft of making books that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th cent.
Cuala Press, private printing press founded in Dundrum, Ireland, in 1902 by Elizabeth and Lily Yeats, the sisters of William Butler Yeats.
Called the Dun Emer Press until 1908, it began as part of a larger company whose purpose was to provide employment for Irish women.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=press   (453 words)

  
 Mi Lee
Through her work at the Dun Emer Press and later the Cuala Press, Elizabeth was able to make a lasting and valuable contribution to Ireland, to the women’s movement, and to the craft of printing itself.
The establishment of the Cuala Press was a considerable achievement, especially for a woman at that time, and in the beginning of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Yeats and the Cuala Press were a kind of anomaly in the printing industry.
William Morris employed a woman in a relatively high position at his Kelmscott Press, but she was the exception rather than the rule, and he was even forced to go to court in her defense because the Trade Unions, which protested women in the workplace, at that time were gaining momentum.
www.stanford.edu /group/ww1/spring2000/MiLee/cuala2.html   (3208 words)

  
 Dun Emer Cuala Press Books at the University of Florida
The Yeats family was involved from the beginning, Lily with the textiles and Elizabeth with the press, and W. as the literary editor
In 1908, Elizabeth Yeats took over the press and renamed it Cuala as Evelyn Gleeson retained the Dun Emer name for the textile aspect of the enterprise.
Although not printed at the press, it is the first bibliography of the Dun Emer and Cuala Press.
web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/rarebook/cuala/cuala.htm   (941 words)

  
 University of Dublin, Trinity College
The Cuala Press was the most important literary publishing house in Dublin in the first half of the 20th century, producing the first editions of several works by WB Yeats.
The Dun Emer Press, which became the Cuala Press, was established in 1902 as part of the Dun Emer Industries.
The principal figures, in Dun Emer Industries, were Evelyn Gleeson who organised the weaving, Lily Yeats, the embroidery, Elizabeth Yeats, the printing, and William Butler Yeats as literary adviser to the press.
www.tcd.ie /Secretary/Communications/Press_Releases/PR0203/PRirishgenius.htm   (357 words)

  
 @BC » Feature Archive » Card catalog
Originally called the Dun Emer Press, the enterprise took on a new name in 1908, when the Yeats sisters moved the business to Dublin, whose ancient name was Cuala.
The press itself was part of a women’s craft cooperative that was founded, according to its prospectus, “to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things.” The press provided women with the rare opportunity to train in printing, painting, and drawing, as well as in Irish language, dance, and culture.
The press was revived in 1969 by William Butler Yeats’s children, Michael and Anne, and closed its doors in 1986.
at.bc.edu /cualapress   (325 words)

  
 Gould Library Exhibits & Art-Fine Printing: Fine Printing in the U.S. and Europe
The press was founded in 1902 by Yeats's sisters Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Lily Yeats.
The translator was the owner of the press, and his wife was the illustrator.
This is a bibliography of the press from June 1943 to December 1948.
www.carleton.edu /campus/library/admin/exhibits/online/useurope.htm   (823 words)

  
 Small press - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The terms "small press" and "independent press" are often used interchangably, with "independent press" defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations.
Many small presses rely on specialization in genre fiction, poetry, or limited-edition books or magazines, but there are also thousands that focus on niche non-fiction markets.
Small presses should not be confused with "vanity presses".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Small_press   (729 words)

  
 April 2003 Blueprints
The Dun Emer Industries was a women’s craft co-operative established in Dundrum, County Dublin, in 1902 by Evelyn Gleeson "to find work for Irish hands in the making of beautiful things." During the 1890'sEvelyn Gleeson had been part of Irish artistic circles in London together with Elizabeth and Lily Yeats, sisters of William Butler Yeats.
The Dun Emer Press was part of the Industries, and it was managed by the Yeats sisters while W. Yeats acted as editor at his sisters' press.
A complete collection of limited editions titles published by the Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press are held in the Special Collections Room of Falvey Library where interested readers are welcome Monday, Thursday and Friday from 2 p.m.
www.library.villanova.edu /blueprints/2003/Apr03index.htm   (2124 words)

  
 Press Prospectus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The Dun Emer Press has been founded in the hope of reviving this beautiful craft.
A good eighteenth century fount of type which is not eccentric in form, or difficult to read has been cast, and the paper has been made of linen rags and without bleaching chemicals, at the Saggart Mill in the county Dublin.
The pages are printed at a Hand Press by Miss E. Yeats, and simplicity is aimed at in their composition.
www.pitt.edu /~jkna/DunEmer/PressProspectus.html   (199 words)

  
 Places
Although the above quote, from James Joyce's Ulysses, is sarcastic and insulting to the Dun Emer press and the entire Irish Renaissance, it is also an acknowledgement that "the weird sisters" were an important part of the Dublin community in 1904.
Dun Emer industries was created by Evelyn Gleeson in 1902 with the help of the Yeats Sisters, Elizabeth and Lily.
The Cuala printing press continued to make some of the most beautiful and important prints of Irish Renaissance inspired by and a part of the Arts and Crafts movement.
www.trentu.ca /library/archives/zyplaces.htm   (1247 words)

  
 A Vision of Yeats- Yeats and his Circle
The press, which produced new works by modern Irish writers and translations of early Irish folk-lore, was run entirely by women.
Evelyn Gleeson kept the Dun Emer name and the embroidery portion while the press changed its name to the Cuala Press under Elizabeth Yeats.
The press was reorganized in 1969 by directors Michael B. Yeats, Anne Yeats, Thomas Kinsella, and Liam Miller.
www.uwm.edu /Libraries/special/exhibits/yeats/circle/circle_dun.htm   (367 words)

  
 Kennys: Cuala Press, Irish Publisher - Kennys Irish Bookshop, Galway, Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
When Elizabeth died in 1940, the press was taken over by George Yeats, the wife of W.B. Yeats.
In 1969, the press was taken up by Michael and Anne Yeats, with Liam Miller.
While, the presses have grown silent of late, there is still considerable interest in locating antiquarian books, maps and prints from this fine Gaelic institution.
www.kennysirishbookshop.ie /categories/irishpublishers/cualapress.shtml   (238 words)

  
 Selected Publishers: Cuala
Elizabeth and Emily Yeats, with Evelyn Gleeson, formed Dun Emer in 1903 to revive the industries of weaving, emproidery and printing.
W.B. Yeats became an editor of the press, and many of his works were published and printed here, and Jack Yeats was responsible for many illustrations.
In 1969, the press was taken up by Michael and Anne Yeats, with Liam Miller, continuing the aims of its founders (4).
www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/Colbeck/publishers/cuala.htm   (269 words)

  
 Evelyn Gleeson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Evelyn Gleeson, who was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, came to Dublin in the summer of 1902 to found an establishment for the training and employment of young girls.
The press department, directed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, published the works of many living Irish writers at a critical time in modern Irish culture and literature, and was a very influential force in its development.
After publishing eleven books under the Dun Emer imprint, the name of the press was changed to Cuala in 1908.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/arts/gleeson.html   (106 words)

  
 Early Printed Books - Collections - Libraries and Collections - Information Resources - Trinity College Library Dublin
Presses represented include: the Grabhorn, the John Henry Nash, the Helen Gentry, the Primavera, the Windsor and the presses of Mills College and Stanford University.
Material is richer for the revival period of the Press, beginning in 1968, and includes minutes of board meetings, correspondence, financial papers and papers relating to each publication.
The printing press was in operation from 1951 to 1979.
www.tcd.ie /Library/libraries/epb.php   (1451 words)

  
 University Archives and Special Collections: Libraries of Adelphi
Almost all of the facsimile editions published by the Trianon Press and by the William Blake Trust are present and form the core of the collection.
The Cuala Press Collection has over 100 titles of poetry and includes plays, broadside ballad sheets, music, and ephemera printed by the private Irish press, the Dun Emer Press in Dun Emer, and the Cuala Press in Dublin, which was founded by the sisters of William Butler Yeats.
Especially noteworthy are the limited editions and publications of two small presses: the Seizin Press established by Robert Graves and Laura Riding Jackson in Deya, Majorca, and the Black Sun Press in Paris, for titles by Harry and Caresse Crosby and other expatriates.
library.adelphi.edu /special/collections.php   (1862 words)

  
 Rare Book Collection - Special and Area Studies Collections - University of Florida Smathers Libraries
John Buckland Wright was born in New Zealand and traveled to Paris to pursue printmaking and was associated with Atelier 17.
A bibliography of titles held by the Collection of the press founded by Evelyn Gleeson with and continued by Elizabeth Yeats.
They are images used by printers to identify the book as having been printed at their press.
www.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/rarebook/links.htm   (1563 words)

  
 Unseen Hands: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
The first press founded by Elizabeth Yeats was named for the Lady Emer, renowned in the Irish epics for her beauty and artistic skills.
The press later moved to Dublin and was re-named Cuala.
Yeats had been a member of William Morris's circle in London, and was inspired by his social and political ideas, and more generally by both the Arts and Crafts revival and the Celtic Renaissance of the late nineteenth century.
libweb2.princeton.edu /rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/yeats.html   (341 words)

  
 BOOK HISTORY TIMETABLE
Dun Emer Press founded (later to be the Cuala Press) by Elizabeth Yeats (sister of the poet), Ireland
Founded the Kleukens Presse in 1919 and the Mainzer Presse in 1929.
The earliest known etchings are by Daniel Hopfer, active at Augsburg between 1493 and 1536, the Swiss Urs Graf, and Dürer, who did five etchings on iron, among them The Agony in the Garden, and The Cannon.
faculty.washington.edu /jcjc/timetable/timetabc3.html   (938 words)

  
 The William Butler Yeats Collection: Exhibition Checklist
The first book published by the Dun Emer Press.
London: Published by Form at the Morland Press Ltd., [1916].
The Cuala Press issued a second edition in the autumn following the poet's death in January 1939.
www.lib.unc.edu /rbc/yeats/checklist.html   (897 words)

  
 Augustine - Falvey Memorial Library
An almost complete collection of limited editions of books and broadsides printed by the Cuala Press (formerly the Dun Emer Press).
This Irish press published many of the important writers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Limited editions of Dolmen Press publications are also collected.
www.library.villanova.edu /services/depts/speccoll/broadside.htm   (47 words)

  
 Cuala Press - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Until it ceased operation in the late 1940s, the press followed a program of publishing works by contemporary Irish writers and new editions and translations of Irish classics.
Among the authors whose works were published by the Cuala Press are Yeats, Lionel Johnson, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, John Masefield, and Louis MacNeice.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Cuala Press" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-cualapre.html   (332 words)

  
 Miller, Liam; THE DUN EMER PRESS, LATER THE CUALA PRESS; WITH A LIST OF THE BOOKS, BROADSIDES AND OTHER PIECES PRINTED ...
Miller, Liam; THE DUN EMER PRESS, LATER THE CUALA PRESS; WITH A LIST OF THE BOOKS, BROADSIDES AND OTHER PIECES PRINTED AT THE PRESS.
An excellent study of the press as well as a bibliography.
First edition, limited to 650 copies of which this is one of seven numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author, the publisher and the designer.
www.oakknoll.com /detail.php?d_booknr=13973   (178 words)

  
 Dun Emer Industries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
First prospectus of the Dun Emer Industries (1903) - e-text
First Prospectus of the Dun Emer Press (1903) - e-text
Photograph of the Press: Elizabeth Corbett Yeats at the press, Beatrice Cassidy standing, Esther Ryan correcting proof (1903)
www.pitt.edu /~jkna/DunEmer/Dun_Emer_Industries.html   (74 words)

  
 William Butler Yeats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Yeats continued to be involved with the Abbey up to His death, both as a member of the board and as a prolific playwright.
In 1902, Yeats helped set up the Dun Emer Press to publish work by writers associated with the Revival.
From then until its closure in 1946, the press, which was run by the poet's sisters, produced over 70 titles, 48 of them books by Yeats himself.
william-butler-yeats.iqnaut.net   (2622 words)

  
 The William Butler Yeats Collection: Yeats and the Collection
Many of the Dun Emer/Cuala Press imprints are also editions of Yeats.
While many of these books are, as one might expect, first editions, there are also a great many bibliographic variants, including limited editions, signed or inscribed copies, special paper copies, and later editions or printings.
The rarest piece in the collection is undoubtedly the first edition of Yeats's On the Boiler (Cuala Press, 1938) of which only four copies survive.
www.lib.unc.edu /rbc/yeats/collection.html   (1290 words)

  
 Private presses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
This is not a comprehensive list and names can be added as necessary.
Make a tracing for other presses as appropriate.
Often the library acquires a private press title because of who wrote the work, rather than who printed the work.
www.library.yale.edu /BeinCatM/privatepress.html   (75 words)

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