Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

157 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 Yeats (Jack B.) and others. Broadsides. A Collection of Old and New Songs, D. (Cuala Press) 1935, folio boards, linen spine, label on upper cover, hand coloured illus. by Jack Yeats and others, songs by W.B. Yeats and others. A compilation of the twelve-monthly issues, with a foreword on Anglo-Irish ballads by W.B. Yeats and F.R., Signed at end by both writers. Together with: Broadsides. A Collection of New Irish and English Songs. Cuala, D. 1937, folio boards, linen spine, label on upper board, original glassine d.w. (stained and torn). Compilation of the twelve-monthly issues for 1937, with a foreword on Music and Poetry by W.B. Yeats and Dorothy Wellesley, signed at end by both. Also with: The Irish University Press reprints of the 1935 and 1937 volumes; and with Yeats (Jack B.). Broadside Characters. Cuala, D. 1971, No. 270 of 300 hand coloured copies, each with eight Jack Yeats illus. printed from the original plates and hand coloured. Unopened. A very good collection, all housed in a recent folding cloth case with morocco spine. (1) €3000 - €4000 Yeats (Jack B.) A Broadside, First Series, 1908-1915, Dun Emer & Cuala Press, 84 issues complete (each issued in 300 copies), in three original Cuala linen portfolios with Yeats coloured vignette (some ties damaged, the vulnerable folding flaps neatly repaired), new paper liners inserted. In a recent heavy folding morocco case, spine & margins gilt, inlays to upper cover. With 252 drawings all by Jack Yeats, many hand-coloured; literary contributors include Masefield, Rhys, Lady Gregory, Seamus O’Sullivan,James Stephens, James Guthrie and probably Jack Yeats himself (under various pseudonyms). Each issue consisted of 4 pp (single folded sheet of heavy paper), including generally two hand coloured drawings on pp. 1-2, with a larger uncoloured drawing on p. 3; rear page blank. A very good clean set, with just a little light foxing on a few numbers. Previous owner’s initials (LMW) on no. 1 only and on one portfolio. A superb compilation, endlessly fascinating, which must have taken a great deal of Yeats’ time. It was discontinued after seven years because wartime conditions interfered with its distribution and sale, and also perhaps because Yeats was exhausted. Each monthly copy was posted to subscribers, with the portfolios supplied separately. Complete sets in original condition are now very hard to find. (1) €6000 - €8000 939. A Full Set in Original Condition 938. The Full Collection in Folding Case