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[DUN EMER PRESS]. YEATS, William Butler (1865–1939). In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. Dundrum: The Dun Emer Press, 1903. 8vo. Printed in black and red. Publisher’s fine–weave Irish linen, printed title label to upper cover, edges uncut (boards toned with some spotting, title label chipped with partial loss); with original printed title label replacement laid in. Provenance: from the library of James Byrne. LIMITED EDITION, one of 325 copies and the inaugural work printed at the Dun Emer Press. AN ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of Yeats’ American friend. Ransom, Private Presses and Their Books 1, p. 238.A fore–runner to the Cuala Press, Dun Emer was initially established to revive the art of book printing in Ireland as was declared on the press’ first prospectus: “Though many books are printed in Ireland, book printing as an art has been little practised here since the eighteenth century. The Dun Emer Press has been founded in the hope of reviving this beautiful craft.”