Sailing to Byzantium & other poems :

set by hand printed letterpress & presented with an original linocut by Mary Plunkett.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Contributors: Plunkett, Mary, illustrator.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Dublin : The Belgrave Private Press, 2015.
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Notes:Designed, set by hand, illustrated and letterpress printed by Mary Plunkett at The Belgrave Private Press, Dublin in 2015. Set in Caslon Old Face as favoured by Elizabeth Yeats in the publications of the Cuala Press. Printed on 175 gsm Somerset Book acid-free paper using an Arab treadle press. Accompanied by a three page fold-out linocut on 250 gsm Somerset Velvet. Printed in a limited edition of 50, numbers 1 to 20 are presented with a three colour linocut & are quarter-bound in cloth and board by Duffy Bookbinders. The linocuts have been inked by hand & printed on a Farley galley press at Graphic Studio Dublin. Numbers 21 to 50 include a single colour print and are bound by the printer in 130 gsm Hahnemuhle Bugra Butten. A further 5 copies, numbered I to V have been printed out of commerce. This is number 28. - numbered and signed in pencil by Mary Plunkett.

Physical description: 12 unnumbered pages including folded page : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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