RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS’ SALE 12th -13th December 2023

89 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 667. Original Drawing Orpen (Sir Wm.) Charlies Barr, 1928, An original pencil Sketch, showing an interior, with a Lady and Gentleman with dicky bow seated at table, approx. 27cms x 20cms (10½" x 8"), and Signed 'NEPRO' and with four line pencil note at bottom, instructing one how to retrieve the drawing from the backing it was laid on, and stating 'If there is anything of this drawing left by the time you get it ....' Frayed badly on rt. hand side. As a drawing, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 668. John Butler Yeats, (1839-1922) Yeats (W.B.) Samhain: An Occasional Review, published, December 1904, front cover - illustrated in pencil with male and female figures by the author’s father John Butler Yeats, depicting characters in the Plays published, framed. (1) €600 - €800 669. Cuala Press: A hand-coloured early Cuala Broadside, Rune of Hospitality, with illustration by Jack B. Yeats, approx. 32cms x 17cms (12 1/” x 6¼”) hogarth frame. Good. (1) €150 - €200 670. Yeats (Jack B.) & others, A Broad Sheet, No. 3, March 1902, lg. printed & colour illustrated broadsheet, approx. 22” x 15” published and sold by Elkin Mathews, printed by Ferncombe Son, Lond. 1902. Framed. (1) €150 - €200 671. Photograph: [Layfayette Studios, Dublin] A black and white Photograph of The Irish Song Writer & Artist, Percy French (1854-1920), taken by E.H. Hills (photographer), framed. (1) €100 - €150 672. RareWork by Charles Dickens [Dickens (Charles)] The Living Ballad of Lord Bateman, 16mo Lond. (Charles Tilt) 1839. First Edn., First Issue (“wine” for “vine” on p. 13). Hf. title, engd. frontis & 10 engd. plts. by George Cruikshank, & plate of music, 40pp., in orig. gilt decor. pict. cloth. Ex. Scarce. (1) €200 - €300 673. Extremely Rare Chretien (Douglas) Cath na Side, large sheet, folded to 4 pages folio. March 17, 1935. Printed by Samuel T. Farquhar for Albert M. Bender, in green & black. Ex. Rare. (1) * Translation of an Irish song of the Tenth Century, text from the Book of Lismore. €225‑€350 674. Very Rare Early Edition [Merriman] Mac Giolla Meidhre (Brian) Mediae Noctis Consilium, ... De Comitatu Clarensi in Momonia A.D. MDCCLXXX. Poema Heroico-Comicum, .. 12mo Dublin (Padruig O’Briain) 1893. Orig. limp green cloth, gilt lettered front cover. V. good copy. V. Scarce. (1) €300 - €400 675. Irish Music: Culwick (James C.) The Distinctive Characteristics of Ancient Irish Melody: The Scales, A Plea for Restoration and Preservation. Roy 8vo Dublin 1897. First Edn., illustrations, 31pp orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1) €120 - €180 667 670 668 671 669