Price: £250
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1959
Stock Number: 68248
(Your basket is currently empty)With Biographical Introduction by John Mitchel.
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light pencil markings to margin of contents page and introduction, one page with abrasion from paper-flaw at foot, pp. 460, [4, publisher's list), crown 8vo, original pebble-grain brown cloth with blind-stamped border and harp motif to both boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very light wear at backstrip ends and corners gently knocked, Irish bookseller blind-stamp to flyleaf and the bookplate of Everard Meynell, designed by Eric Gill, to front pastedown, an earlier owner's pencil note about its scarcity to verso of flyleaf, goodPublication Details: New York: P.M. Haverty, 1959
Notes: The publisher specialised in editions of Irish authors. Everard Meynell was the brother of Francis Meynell et al., son of Alice and Wilfrid - from his Serendipity Shop in Mayfair he sold original work by Eric Gill and Claud Lovat Fraser, among others; the former created his attractive wood-engraved bookplate design.
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