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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) [His own library] H. L. Swinburne, The Royal Navy, Adam & Charl...

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) [His own library] H. L. Swinburne, The Royal Navy, Adam & Charl...
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) [His own library]
H. L. Swinburne, The Royal Navy, Adam & Charles Black, London, 1907.
First edition. With 51 colour plates by marine artist Norman Wilkinson, and a further 10 illustrating sailor costumes by J. Jellicoe. PRESENTATION COPY (blind stamped on title-page) to poet John Masefield, who subsequently gave the book to Jack B. Yeats. INSCRIBED: "To the Admiral of the Gara Fleet from M", with the dancing figure of a man forming an 'M' and a boat on water under him. The "Admiral" was Yeats whose studio in Devon had overlooked the Gara River. (see Bruce Arnold, Jack Yeats, Yale University Press, London, 1998, pp.106-115). Masefield and Yeats sailed model boats along the Gara and the river features in Masefield's ribald ditties about the pirate Theodore, the illustrations to which Yeats supplied. SIGNED BY YEATS on the front free-endpaper. A fascinating piece of Yeats/Masefield memorabilia.
Provenance:
John Masefield, poet;
Jack B. Yeats, artist;
Harold Mortlake, Bookseller, London;
E. R. Stillwell Esq., USA;
Private collection, Dublin
Note: a letter of provenance, from Mortlake & Co. to E. R. Stillwell, dated 3 September 1959, is included with this lot.
€300-€400 (IR £200-£300 approx.)
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