Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

93 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 802. [Dun Emer] An attractive embroidered green linen cover or tea cozy with central monogram on blue ground with initials ‘E.B.Y.’ (Elizabeth Butler Years). (1) Provenance: The Yeats Family - The Final Chapter, Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers, November 2017. €200 - €300 803. Maud Gonne, Irish (1866-1953) Rosamund Longbridge, (Irish Novelist, Playwright and Poet) 1880-1964, watercolour and pencil, head and shoulder oval portrait, approx. 30cms x 25cms (12” x 10”) Signed with initials lower right, gilt mount, black frame, with manuscript note on back ‘Rosamund Longbridge - ‘Author of A Tragedy of Truth, which will be produced by MH Martin Hardy at Adelphi Theatre, on June 17th, drawn by Maud Gonne’. (1) €800 - €1200 804. Countess Constance Gore-Booth Markievicz, Irish (1868-1927) The House Keeper, charcoal and white chalk on tinted paper, approx.57cms x 43cms (221/2” x 17”), later frame. (1) Provenance: The Lissadell Collection on behalf of the Gore-Boths, conducted by Mealy’s 2002. €1000 - €1500 805. Cuala Press: A collection of 35 hand coloured and decorated Greeting Cards, each with attractive hand coloured illustrations by various artists, such as E. Corbet Yeats, Pamela Coleman Smith, Hilda Roberts, Mary Cottie Yeats and others, with quotations or poetry, as a collection. (1) €350 - €450 806. [Cuala Press] a collecition of hand coloured illustrated Prints, to include: * The Hurley Player, (W.M. Letts); * The Ballad Singer; * The Playboy; * The Side Car; * The Jockey; * Settlement Day, all illus. by J.B. Yeats, as a lot. (1) €180 - €220 807. [Cuala Press] ‘Saint Patricks Breastplate,’ lg. 8vo, 2pps, hand coloured illustration and motif, by Pamela Coleman Smith. Good clean copy. (1) €120 - €140 808. [Cuala Press] Yeats (J.B.) & others, a collection of hand coloured illustrated Prints to include: * Rune of Hospitalit y, illus. by J.B. Yeats; * St. Patrick , illus. by Beatrice Glenavy; * The Message, illus. by J.B. Yeats; and other The Rainbow by Mary CottenhamYeats, as a lot. (4) €120 - €140 809. [Cuala Press] [Yeats (W.B.)] a collection of hand coloured Prints, to include: * The Lover Tells; * The Pity of Love; * The Fiddler of Dooney; * The Lover Pleads; * The Lake Isle of Innisfree; All by W.B. Yeats, with hand coloured lettering, as a lot. (5) €120 - €140 810. [Cuala Press] a collection of hand coloured illustrated Prints, to include: * The Message, (Douglas Hyde) illus. by Jack B. Yeats; * Coole Park, (W.B. Yeats) illus. by D. Blackham; * Leafy Munster, (D.M. Emerson); * Had, The Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths (W.B. Yeats); * An Old Woman of the Roads, (P. Colum) illus. Lady Glenavy; * We Who know Tune’s Little Ways (S.L. Mitchell) illus. Jack B. Yeats; * Silver Apples, (W.B. Yeats) * May Henry Bloom (J. Orr);and one other Print of Jack B. Yeats ‘Currach’, as a lot. (9) €200 - €300 811. [Cuala Press] a collection of hand coloured illustrated Prints, to include: * The Pookawn; * A Shop in Sailor Town; * Mountain Farm; and * The Village; all illustrated by Jack B. Yeats, as a lot. (4) €120 - €140 802 803 807 804