Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory — The Kiltartan Wonder Book

Dublin, Maunsel & Co, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the scarce first edition of Lady Gregory's children's work about her home town, the civil parish of Kiltartan in County Galway. Illustrated with eight colour plates - each retaining their original tissue guard - by Margaret Gregory, the widowed daughter-in-law of Lady Gregory. Collated, complete.The work of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager who regularly hosted W.B. Yeats at her ancestral home, Kiltartan Castle.A charming children's work in which Lady Gregory presents an idealised portrait of her Galway home. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bump to spine head, with light fading to back strip. Otherwise, externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Margaret Gregory. Very Good Indeed .