Audenesque. Lithographs by Max Neumann. Paris: Maight Éditeur, 1998. First Edition, Limited Issue. Publisher’s white wrappers, printed letterpress in black and red on four loose bifolia of Vélin d’Arches. Housed in the original dark green paper-covered slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Roman Number VIII of XX Hors Commerce Copies, Signed by Author and Artist in pencil.

Heaney’s poem was written in memory of his late friend and fellow Nobel Laureate, Joseph Brodsky, who had died in 1996. It references W.H. Auden s great elegy “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” published in 1940.

One of the scarcest Heaney publications, with five striking woodcut illustrations by Max Neumann.

[Brandes & Durkan A69].