The Crock of Gold. Drawings by Wilfred Jones. London: Macmillan, 1922. First Edition Thus. Pp, 298. Quarter cloth green paper boards, in publisher’s green dust jacket lettered in black. A nice bright copy.

First Illustrated Edition. With decorative endpapers, green pen drawings in the margins and coloured plates throughout the text by American artist Wilfred Jones.

The Crock of Gold has been as a combination of Irish folklore, philosophy, and the battle between the sexes.

The story is told through six sections labelled “Books”: The Coming of Pan, The Philosopher’s Journey, The Two Gods, The Philosopher’s Return, The Policemen, and The Thin Woman’s Journey and The Happy March.