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‘The Táin’, translated by Kinsella, from the Irish Táin
Bo Cuailnge, with 131 brush drawings by Louis Le
Brocquy plates and maps, LIMITED FIRST EDITION,
1750 copies, in illustrated card sleeve. This is the
first edition which rapidly sold out and within one
year became a standard Oxford University paper-
back in a lithographic reprint. This is considered the
most successful and most famous Dolmen Press
title.
€ 300 - 500
‘The Táin’, translated by Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bo
Cuailnge with 131 brush drawings by Louis Le Brocquy,
Dolmen Press 1985, buckram in illustrated wrappers
library edition with all the illustrations of the first edition in
association with the University of Pennsylvania Press. This
is the only edition, other than the first edition, with the full
suite of illustrations which was unavailable until this library
edition was issued in 1985 - other editions only had 30 of
the illustrations and the bulk of this edition was distributed
to libraries worldwide and was never reprinted; together
with two other Táin books comprising a FIRST EDITION by
Ciaran Carson, Penguin Classics and a Chinese edition. (3)
€ 120 - 160