YEATS, Jack B. Sligo (Harry Clarke’s copy)

London: Wishart & Company, 1930. First Edition. pp. 158. Original light green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. A few faint marks to covers, otherwise a very good copy.

Harry Clarke's copy. Signed “Clarke” in his hand on front free endpaper neat hand in blue ink. The celebrated Irish stained-glass artist and illustrator, regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest visual talents of the twentieth century. An important association linking two of Ireland’s foremost visual artists and interpreters of Irish life.

The association between Jack B. Yeats and Harry Clarke is of particular significance in the story of Irish art. Both men drew inspiration from native legend and landscape, transforming them through distinctive, visionary styles. Sligo was issued in a modest print run by Wishart & Company, and copies with such provenance are of exceptional rarity. Clarke’s ownership adds deep resonance, uniting two creative giants of Ireland’s modern cultural renaissance.

Jack B. Yeats’s Sligo is a lyrical evocation of the landscapes, people, and moods of the county that shaped his imagination and artistic vision. A companion in spirit to his paintings and earlier prose sketches, it captures the salt air, fair-days, and fierce independence of the western seaboard.

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