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Books THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM 346 Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) THE SCOURGE OF THE GULPH, JAMES FLAUNTY, 1903 and DESIGNED BOOKPLATE first edition hand-coloured printed booklets; (2); monochrome book plate; (1) signed in plate Sizes: booklets 7 by 4.25 inches, plate 5 by 3.5 inches. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell box. The Scourge of the Gulph, first edition, Elkin Matthews 1903; James Flaunty, or Terror On The Western Seas, first edition, Elkin Matthews, London 1901, uncut; book plate shows a pirate on ship named Madeline Jones. Estimate €400-€600 (approx £350-£520) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 346 347 Yeats, William Butler. CollectedWorks in eight volumes and a signed autograph letter by Jack B Yeats. The CollectedWorks of W.B.Yeats in Verse and Prose. Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1908, first edition, eight volumes, first edition, octavo, with letter written & signed by Jack B. Yeats concerning recent plays he has written loosely inserted in Volume l. Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£440) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 347 348 Young, Jean. Angerstein’s Catalogue of Pictures; the founding collection of the British National Gallery. Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of the Late John Julius Angerstein, Catalogue de la Collection Celebre de Tableaux de feu M. Jean Jules Angerstein. London, 1823, 4to, quarter red hide gilt, 42 plates with accompanying text in English and French. John Julius Angerstein (1732-1823) was a London businessman and Lloyd’s underwriter, a patron of the fine arts and a collector. It was the prospect that his collection of paintings, catalogued in this volume, was about to be sold by his estate in 1824 that galvanised the founding of the British National Gallery. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 348