The Oxford Book of Irish Verse. XVII-XXth Century. Chosen by Donagh MacDonagh & Lennox Robinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. First Edition. Pp, xxxviii, 343. Blue leather boards, title in gilt to spine, housed in publisher’s cardboard slipcase. All edges in gilt. A fine bright copy.

An anthology of three centuries of Irish poetry, featuring over 100 Irish poets from Luke Waddington to Thomas Kinsella, with a selection of their best-known poems.

An ideal gift edition.