Déirdre. The First of the ‘Three Sorrows, or Pities, of Story-Telling.’ Dublin: Talbot Press, 1939. The Children of Lir. The Second of the ‘Three Sorrows, or Pities, of Story-telling.’ Dublin: Talbot Press, 1940. The Children of Tuireann. The Third of the ‘Three sorrows, or Pities, of Story-telling.’ Dublin: Talbot Press, 1941. All First Editions. Bound together in quarter calf over cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. Each issue with its original titled coloured paper wrapper bound-in. Light fading to spine, otherwise in fine bright condition.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by Douglas Hyde in Gaelic on second blank, as President of Ireland, March, 1944.

Three of the most haunting tales in the Irish mythological tradition, founded respectively upon Love, Jealousy and Murder. Hyde selected and translated them as examples of the deepest emotional currents in Irish folklore.

The binding is by Colm O’Lochlainn, printer, publisher, binder and bibliophile who founded the Three Candles Press in 1916.