The Treasure of the Garden.

£615 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Nine full page illustations, including the cover illustration of which eight of these are hand-coloured, as well as various vignettes. The story is a tragic tale of the rotten emigrant ship The Gleaner headed to Amerikay. The illustration of it lying off the village of Poolthoia is modelled on the strand at Rosses point in Sligo, with Ben Bulben glowering in the background. Nelson, EM, 1902.15, citing an edition of 200, 165 of which were for sale. Except for a tea stain extending three inches along the top edge from the right corner, and 1/2 inch deep at its deepest, and very slight curling at upper corner, a very good copy with wrappers entirely intact and clean, tight text block - the endemic browning of the text is well under control. Whether many were actually used for performances, or because of its inherent fragility, these larger format miniature theatre celebrations are rare enough.

• Year: 1902

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