The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish. With Brush Drawings by Louis Le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press -Oxford University Press, 1970. Second Edition. Pp [xxvii], 295. Black cloth boards, titled in white along spine, devise on front cover, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket lettered in red and black. Neat ownership name to half-title, otherwise a fine bright copy.

First published in a limited edition of 1750 copies in 1969, this trade edition reproduces a selection of the drawings which appeared in the limited issue.