Certain Noble Plays of Japan:
From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa, chosen and finished by Ezra Pound, with an introduction by William Butler Yeats.
Churchtown, Dundrum, The Cuala Press, 1916
The book was published and printed by the Yeat's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, who had established the Cuala Press in 1908 with support from her brother. Cuala was unique for being the only press managed and staffed by women, and the only commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with a hand press.
First edition, number 209 of 350 copies; 8vo 21.5 x 15 cm); old bookseller's label to front pastedown, woodcut device to title, limitation, character list, and colophon in red; original unprinted dust-jacket, grey paper boards backed in bluff linen, title stamped in black to upper cover, top-edges uncut, minor toning to endpapers and covers; [9], xviii, [3], 48, [8]pp.
Wade 269.
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