The Aran Islands. With Drawings by Jack B. Yeats (1907)
Book ID: 68244
Price: €950.00
The Aran Islands. With Drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1907. First Edition, Second Issue. Pp, xii, 189 + advertisement; uncut. 12 full page black & white illustrations by Jack Yeats. Publisher’s original blue cloth titled lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine. A fine bright copy.
The twelve drawings by Jack B. Yeats: (1) An island Man; (2) The Pier; (3) The Hooker’s owner; (4) Kelp-Making; (5) The Evictions; (6) Carrying Seaweed for Kelp; (7) A Four-Oared Curagh; (8) Man on Pier; (9) Thatching; (10) Porter; (11) An island Horseman; (12) The Man who told the Stories.
A small number of first issue copies were printed in December 1906 with that date on the title page. The 1907, second impression, is identical in format to the first issue.
A special large paper edition limited to 150 numbered copies was also published. Each with hand-coloured plates and signed by both J.M. Synge & J.B. Yeats.
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