Lot Essay
This possibly unique copy of The Aran Islands predates the official publication date by a year. The copy in the British Library, received in April 1907, has the official first edition date of that year.
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YEATS, Jack Butler & John Millington SYNGE. The Aran Islands, Dublin and London, Maunsel and Macmillan, 1906, 8°, FIRST EDITION, [(?) proof copy], 12 wood-engraved plates by Yeats, uncut, original cloth -- O'FLAHERTY, Liam. Shame the Devil, London, Grayson & Grayson, [1934], 8°, FIRST EDITION, portrait, original cloth -- COLUM, Padraic (editor). Broadsheet Ballads being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs, Dublin and London, Maunsel, [n.d.], 8°, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece by Jack Butler Yeats, original cloth, dust-jacket; and 34 other vols. of Irish and English literature, including 19 vols. of Horizon. (37)