The Scourge of the Gulp. With Four Illustrations by Jack Yeats. One of Jack B. Yeats Plays for the Miniature Theatre. London: Mathews, [1903]. Original blue pictorial wrappers, with drawing of Pirate hand-coloured to upper cover, four drawings (uncoloured) in the text. Pp 14, upper edge unopened. A fine copy of this fragile publication.

“This play is in the manner of those ancient plays which Robert Louis Stevenson delighted in, and of which he wrote under the title of ‘A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured.’ The illustrations to the Scourge of the Gulph show the various scenes set with the characters on the stage.”