Rare Limited Edition in Original Dust Jacket with Sketch by ...

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Rare Limited Edition in Original Dust Jacket with Sketch by Jack B. Yeats

Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland.  Drawn and Painted By .. D.&L. 1912, First Edn., Special Edition with an Original Sketch. Sm qto buckram boards, linen spine, title labels, t.e.g., in the original illus. d.w. (with minor repair), No. 49 of 150 copies with an original signed coloured sketch of a coachman on prelim. With the 8 tipped-in colour prints, 32 line drawings and 16 reproductions from paintings. Bookplate of Gilbert MacSwiney.  (1)

A magnificent copy, virtually as issued, in the rare d.w. A very scarce edition, made scarcer by the ease of extracting and framing the signed sketch. There can be no more than a handful of copies still retaining the sketch, a Yeat's rarity.