The Well In the Wood. With illustrations by F.Y. Cory. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1922. First Edition. Blue cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Covers lightly faded, contents in fine condition. Black and white frontispiece plus seven full-page black and white illustrations. There are numerous other illustrations in the text and several pages of music.

Signed by the author on a tipped in slip, and below that, Inscribed to Lady Gregory by Emma Bonner Taylor (the author’s wife) who wrote the musical pieces that appear throughout the book, with a note to see page 66, where B L Taylor obliquely refers to her as “The Donkey”