The Golden Boug. Screenprints by Jan Hendrix. Mexico: Published by Banholt, 1992. First Edition, Limited Issue. Folio. Quarter black leather spine over paper boards, screen print image embossed to covers, title lettered in gilt to spine. Housed in publisher’s cardboard slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of Fifty Numbered Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney & Jan Hendrix.

With an Illustrated title page and four striking double-page plates in the text by Jan Hendrix.

The text comprises Heaney’s translation of Book IV, lines 98-148 from the Aeneid, with a two page Postscript in which Heaney gives a moving account on how this passage resonated with him on a personal level.

[Brandes & Durkan A54]