Celtic Wonder-Tales. Illustrated and Decorated By Maud Gonne de YOUNG, Ella - 1910

Dublin: Maunsel & Company, 1910. Pp. viii, [202], with 4 colour illustrations tipped-on to brown card-stock, head and tail-pieces throughout. Original blue cloth, upper cover decorations and lettering in dark blue, gilt lettering to spine, presumed first binding state. Offsetting to front and rear free endpapers with previous owner's ink signature and date to front free endpaper, small bookseller's ticket to bottom of rear pastedown, light offsetting to title-page from frontispiece, minor stains to edges of prelims, else interior clean and bright. Some light rubbing to extremities, spine gently darkened, otherwise a near fine copy of a rather scarce collectible, with the illustrations of Maud Gonne, the object of W.B. Yeats's unrequited love. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG +. Illus. by Maud Gonne. Ocatvo.