Hugh Lane and his Pictures. Paris: Pegasus Press, 1932. Pp xiv 81, with 50 plates. Folio, half morocco over marble paper boards, raised bands with title stamped in gilt to second panel, Government Harp to fifth. Light scuffing to head & tail of spine & corners, contents pages in fine bright condition.

Limited Edition of 400 Copies by Order of the Government of the Irish Free State. The paper is Mould-Made Rag, the plates were printed in Double-Tone Collotype. The binding was executed by Messrs. H. Sperling, Leipzig.

Illustrated with fifty plates printed in double-tone collotype by Messrs. F. Bruckmann.

Sir Hugh Lane, a pivotal figure in Irish art history who founded the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin, the first public gallery of modern art in the world. Bodkin recounts Lane’s life, his passion for art, and his controversial bequest of paintings—originally intended for Dublin but legally held by London due to an unwitnessed codicil. The gift of Hugh Lane’s continental pictures are now divided between the National Gallery Dublin and Tate Galleries, London.