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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 84 BROADSIDES [1908-1915]hand-coloured; (
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 84 BROADSIDES [1908-1915]
hand-coloured; (from a limited edition of 300)
Portrait
11 by 7.5in., 27.5 by 18.75cm.
A Broadside was published in a folio format, on special paper made at the Saggart Mills in Dublin, with typeface selected by the artist`s sister Lily and printed on an Albion hand press built in 1853. A Broadside was published in an edition of 300 copies. An annual subscription cost 12 shillings. Jack illustrated the complete first series (84 issues) totalling 252 drawings and had exclusive editorial control for the first series with W.B. assuming the role for the subsequent second and third. The present example is a highly desirable, complete compilation in superb condition, housed within two original blue linen portfolios each with Yeats` hand-coloured labels of a pirate playing a mandolin.
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 84 BROADSIDES [1908-1915]
hand-coloured; (from a limited edition of 300)
Portrait
11 by 7.5in., 27.5 by 18.75cm.
A Broadside was published in a folio format, on special paper made at the Saggart Mills in Dublin, with typeface selected by the artist`s sister Lily and printed on an Albion hand press built in 1853. A Broadside was published in an edition of 300 copies. An annual subscription cost 12 shillings. Jack illustrated the complete first series (84 issues) totalling 252 drawings and had exclusive editorial control for the first series with W.B. assuming the role for the subsequent second and third. The present example is a highly desirable, complete compilation in superb condition, housed within two original blue linen portfolios each with Yeats` hand-coloured labels of a pirate playing a mandolin.
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