Life in The West of Ireland. Drawn and Painted by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Maunsel & Co., 1912. First Edition. Pp 111. Rebound by Museum Book Bindings, in polished blue morocco, gilt title and illustration to upper board. Covers lightly faded, scattered foxing to the margins of a few of the pages at rear, but overall in nice bright condition.

Contains seven plates in colour, thirty-two line drawings and sixteen reproductions from paintings.

While Jack B. Yeats was London-born, he spent his boyhood in Sligo with his grandparents & the influence of these early years remained with him all his life. Yeats at first painted the west of Ireland from afar before the first of a series of trips there in 1898; over the following years he held a number of exhibitions, entitled Sketches of Life in the West of Ireland, in London and Dublin.

Jack B. Yeats also illustrated John Millington Synge’s book The Aran Islands (1907) and was consulted by Synge about the costumes for The Playboy of the Western World.

A nice example of the work of Museum Bookbinders, who were one of Dublin’s premier book binders & restorers. They were located on Baggot Street from the mid-1970’s.