The Crock of Gold. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.
First edition thus. One of only 525 copies printed on hand-made paper and signed by the author.
Quarto. vii, 228 pp., with color frontispiece, eleven color plates, and signed limitation page. Bound by Baynton Riviere in full red morocco, covers triple-ruled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. A fine copy.
Beautifully bound limited edition of this classic Irish tale, signed by the author.
James Stephens (1880–1950) was a popular Irish poet and novelist. James Joyce was so impressed with Stephens' talent that he asked Stephens to complete Finnegans Wake for him if he were unable to do so. The Crock of Gold is Stephens' best known work.
Mullin, Katherine, ‘Stephens, James (1880–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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