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  • IRISH BROADSIDES EDITED BY JACK B. YEATS TOP LOT AT MEALY’S BOOK SALE

    A complete set of Broadsides edited by Jack B. Yeats made 12,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

    A complete set of 84 Irish broadsides edited by Jack B. Yeats was

    Lady Gregory's copy of The Aran Islands made 11,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

    the top lot at Mealy’s rare book sale in Dublin on July 19.  Published by Dun Emer and Cuala Press, bound and hand tooled by Esther Ryan, signed by Jack B. Yeats and with the ownership signature of the distinguished Irish actor Jack MacGowran, it made 12,000.  Published monthly between June 1908 and May 1915 there are contributions by James Stephens, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, John Masefield, Seamus O’Sullivan and others, old ballads and over 100 hand coloured drawings by Yeats.  The collection made 12,000.

    Lady Gregory’s copy of The Aran Islands signed by Synge and Jack B. Yeats, which was later signed by Jack MacGowran in Dublin in 1972, made 11,000.  A rare coloured copy of Jonathan Fisher’s Tour of Killarney with 20 views from 1790 also made 11,000. A first edition of Ulysses, published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922, made 8,250.
    See antiquesandartireland.com posts for July 14 and July 8.

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