Lot 39
Bookbinding - Gemma O'Connor
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£875
Description
The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella, with brush drawings by Louis Le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. 4to, one of 1750 copies, this copy specially bound by Gemma O'Connor in full black morocco, the upper cover bearing the onlaid profile of a bull in scarlet morocco set amid a design of gilt and blind whorls; the lower cover decorated with outline figures in red of two warriors bearing gilt shields; the spine carrying the legend Tain Bo Cuailnge in Gaelic characters again onlaid in red; red reversed hide doublures, Fabriano end-papers, all edges gilt, in half black morocco felt-lined book-form folding box
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire