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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) James Flaunty or the Terror of the Western Seas, Elkin Matth...

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Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) James Flaunty or the Terror of the Western Seas, Elkin Matth...
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957)
James Flaunty or the Terror of the Western Seas, Elkin Matthews, London, [1901].
Chap Book, foolscap octavo, in original printed brown wrappers, hand-coloured. Matthews published three such miniature plays of Yeats's, of which James Flaunty was the most successful. Touted as one of Yeats's "Plays in the Old Manner", it contained six black and white illustrations, each framed by a mock proscenium arch with the stage-lights visible along the bottom. Ernest Marriott wrote of these chap books, "Together they do not weigh more than a few ounces. Placed flat on top of one another they are not an inch high. Yet within that small compass there is much of the quaint and the beautiful... Not one of these books takes more than a quarter of an hour to read, but - the inspiriting glory of those fifteen minutes!" (Jack B. Yeats: His Pictorial and Dramatic Art, 1911, p.14).
€200-€300 (IR £160-£240 approx.)
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