Twelve Irish Artists. Introduction by Thomas Bodkin.  Dublin: Waddington, 1940. First Edition, Trade Issue. Large folio. Quarter cloth paper boards. A nice clean copy.

A volume profiling twelve of Waddington’s best-selling artists with a short biography of each accompanied by an illustration of their work.

Twelve colour prints by J. Humbert Craig (Coming From Mass); William Conor(The Low-Backed Car); Grace Henry (The Top of the Hill); Paul Henry (Old People Watching A Dance); Sean Keating (title in Gaelic translated as Half Flood); Harry Kernoff (Naylor’s Cove, Bray); Charles V. Lamb (Hearing the News); Maurice MacGonigal (title in Gaelic trans. By the Sea); Frank McKelvey (On the Lagan); Dermod O’Brien (Scuffling the Mangolds); Sean O’Sullivan (William Butler Yeats); Leo Whelan (A Kerry Cobbler).