Adam's IMPORTANT IRISH ART 29 MAY 2024

130 110 HARRY CLARKE RHA (ILLUS.) Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Illustrations and Decorations by Harry Clarke and an introduction by Humbert Wolfe, Photogravure plates by Nickeloid. Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London and Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. First Edition, 1928, magenta cloth w/ water stains. Inscribed in ink: “Dear V./This is my very best Blood and Guts manner./ Harry C. 28.” Provenance: Albert Ernest Wood KC (1873 - 1941), Marino, Killiney, Co. Dublin thence by descent to the current owners. € 300 - 400 111 HARRY CLARKE RHA (ILLUS.) ‘Fairy Tales’ by Hans Christian Anderson With colour and black & white illustrations by Harry Clarke Published by Brentano’s New York, blue cloth Provenance: Albert Ernest Wood KC (1873 - 1941), Marino, Killiney, Co. Dublin thence by descent to the current owners. € 200 - 300 113 HARRY CLARKE RHA (ILLUS.) ‘Faust’ by Goethe From the German by John Anster With colour and black & white illustrations by Harry Clarke Published by George Harrap & Co Ltd, London, 1925, First edition, qtr. Vellum gilt No. 295/1000 of the English limited edition and signed by Clarke Provenance: Albert Ernest Wood KC (1873 - 1941), Marino, Kill- iney, Co. Dublin thence by descent to the current owners € 400 - 600 112 HARRY CLARKE RHA (ILLUS.) ‘The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault’ With colour and black & white illustrations by Harry Clarke and an introduction by Thomas Bodkin Published by George Harrap & Co Ltd, London, 1922, First Edition Inscribed in ink: “To/Mrs Albert Wood/from her friend/Harry Clarke./Dec. 1922” Provenance: Albert Ernest Wood KC (1873 - 1941), Marino, Kill- iney, Co. Dublin thence by descent to the current owners. € 300 - 400