[Jack B. Yeats]

i) 'The Circus', 143 x 120mm., metal-plate printing block on wood, ten countersunk screw holes, [Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations 1271]; ii) Design for Catalogue Heading of the Exhibition Held at the Stephen's Green Gallery, Dublin, in 1923, 60 x 140mm., metal-plate printing block on wood, eight countersunk screw hole, [Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations 2136]; iii) 'Exhibition of Paintings by Jack B. Yeats', 66 x 115mm., metal-plate printing block on wood, six countersunk screw holes, dated on reverse 30 September 1929, [apparently not in Pyle] (see also lot 184); iv-v) together with two others from illustrations by Jack B. Yeats--vi-ix) four blocks with watercolour drawings on surface of wood--x-xxx) 21 other printing blocks, various sizes and subjects, some with apparently no relevance to the Yeats family (30)

Many soiled. Occasional rusting.
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These printing blocks, some with apparently no relevance to the Yeats family, cover a  wide range of dates from 1919.