CARTY, Ciaran. Robert Ballagh. Book One – The Early Years. Book Two – Citizen Artist. Accompanying text by Ciaran Carty. Production design by Paul Rattigan.

Two volumes. Dublin: Published by Royal Hibernian Academy, 2006. First edition. Large quarto. Strictly limited to an edition of 350 only. Signed, numbered and dated by the artist Robert Ballagh. Green and maroon embossed cloth, titled in orange and green. Housed in a fine coarse linen and pictorial cloth solander box, with white gloves and black bag. A fine production.

Each edition contains 24 original gyclée prints produced by Bernard Ruijgrok, Amsterdam using archival inks on acid-free museum quality paper. Each of the 24 reproductions is individually embossed with the artists own monogram. Typeset in Garamond Roman. The paper for the text pages is Zen by GF Smith. Book printing and production by Lenoirschuring, Amsterdam. Binding and solander case produced by Pau Groenendijk of Mooie Boeken, Amsterdam. Photography by Davidson and Associates, Dublin. The publication is supported by Dermot F Desmond.

List of Plates: The History Lesson; The Third of May After Goya; James Connolly; Woman and a Pierre Soulages; My Studio, 1969; James Plunkett; The Conversation; Inside No 3; Winter in Ronda; Homage to Albrecht Dürer; Upstairs No 3; Noël Browne; The Illustrator; Upstairs No 4, The Studio; JB Keane; Michael Farrell; Alex Maskey; Still Crazy After All These Years; JP Donleavy; Self Portrait in the Italian Style; Louis le Brocquy; Dermot Desmond; James D Watson; Raft of the Medusa.