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T. N. Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1913. With twelve colour plates by Jack Yeats
tipped in. First edition. Crown octavo, original gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge
gilt. Previous owner of the text was the chemist for Cadbury’s Chocolates in
Birmingham. Further details on previous owners laid in.
The Big Tree of Bunclody, The Macmillan Company, 1933, New York. With
illustrations by Yeats throughout. In original green linen boards with titled upper
and spine. A very fne pair.
€300-€500 (£250-£420 approx)
268
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
LETTER TO RICHARD PEARSALL ESQ., 1947
ink; on Yeats’ headed paper [18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin]; letter (1);
envelope; (1); (framed as one)
signed, inscribed and dated
7.50 by 9.50in. (19.05 by 24.13cm)
Touching letter from the artist to a friend [Richard Pearsall Esq.] telling him of his
wife’s [Cottie] passing four months previously. Poignant words from the private
artist during a sad time in his personal life. He writes, “I thought I would die frst,
but I know now its better as it is...I have painting to occupy my spirit with for a
while...”
€300-€400 (£250-£340 approx)
269
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
LETTER BY JACK B. YEATS TO MR McLOUGHLIN, 1933
pencil; (on Yeats’ [18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin] headed paper)
signed, inscribed and dated by the artist; with sketch of a woman
wearing a hat in another hand on reverse
7.75 by 9.75in. (19.69 by 24.77cm)
Letter dated 31 January 1933 from the artist to a Patron [Mr McLoughlin] regarding
the title of a drawing he purchased, the illustration to Dark Eye’d Gypsy O.
Some provenance to the acquisition of the drawing noted also.
€300-€400 (£250-£340 approx)
270
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
THE POST CAR and THE VILLAGE (A PAIR)
hand-coloured Cuala Press prints; (2)
the first, signed in the plate lower left, titled lower right; the second,
signed on the plate lower right
8.50 by 12in. (21.59 by 30.48cm)
Exhibited:
‘Arts & Crafts Society of Ireland’, Cuala Industries, 1910,
no. 222 ( The Village, another copy)
Literature:
Pyle, Hilary, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and
Illustrations, Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994, p.284-285 [nos. 2017
and 2023]
Dimensions of second work: 3.5 by 13.5in.
The Village, sheet size: 4.5 by 14ins. The original of this print was executed in pen,
ink and watercolour c.1906. It was later reproduced as a Dún Emer print (listed in
Dún Emer Catalogue, October 1907 and Prospectus, May 1908) and as a Cuala print
(5).
Both works framed and mounted uniformly.
€300-€400 (£250-£340 approx)
271
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
A COLLECTION OF 7 HAND-COLOURED CUALA PRESS PRINTS, c.1970s
variously signed in the plate; some with details printed in the mount
Collection includes; The Strand Races (Pair), The Village, The Post Car, Evening, The
Shanachie and Across The Door (with poem by Padraic Colum beneath).
Dimensions from 7 by 5in (smallest) to 8.5 by 12in (largest). A desirable collection
of late prints by the Cuala Press all framed and mounted uniformly.
€600-€800 (£500-£670 approx)
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