Thirty-Six Woodcuts. Foreword on the process of making woodcuts by Aaron A. Bravanel. Dublin: Privately Published, 1951. Publisher’s linen boards, titled in lettered in blue to upper cover & spine. Covers faded & lightly soiled contents bright & clean. Housed in collector’s solander box.

Limited Edition of 400 Numbered Copies Signed by Harry Kernoff on the title page.

 Ex libris Brian O’Nolan with his signature to the title page. O’Nolan wrote under the pseudonyms of Flann O’Brien & Myles Na gCopaleen.

Born in London in 1900, Kernoff moved to Dublin with his family when he was a teen, and it was here that he began to study art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. In 1926, he began exhibiting his work in the Royal Hibernian Academy, and he did so almost every year until he died in 1974.

A popular, humorous, and sociable character, with a fondness for swimming and satiric verse, he could often be seen at the Palace bar in Fleet St. and scouring other Dublin pubs for suitable portrait subjects. It’s very likely he bumped into O’Nolan on his travels, another man with similar tastes in humour & public houses.