Jack B. Yeats
Subtitle: being a true impartial view of his pictorial & dramatic art, wherein is discovered the author's sense of the unusual excellence of the astonishing handiwork of his singular artist ... wherein also is animadverted, excogitated & perpended the truth and quality of this unparalleled artist's pictorial observations ...
By: by Ernest Marriott ; ... [Title continues in note].
Publisher: Printed for Elkin Matthews
Published: 1911
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Yeats, Jack Butler, -- 1871-1957
Other titles: Jack B. Yeats : his pictorial & dramatic art.
Notes: Title continued: the discourse adorned with a portrait of the artist when a child, by his father, and a surprising chart of Pirate Island ; drawn by the cunning and subtile master hand of Jack B. Yeats ...

"This monograph on Jack B. Yeats was read at a meeting of the Manchester Literary Club and printed in 'The Manchester quarterly' for July, 1911. It is now published with some alterations and additions to the text, and illustrated as set forth on the title page."

Cover title: Jack B. Yeats : his pictorial & dramatic art, by Ernest Marriott ; containing a chart of Pirate Island by Jack B. Yeats and a portrait.

Illustrated cover title.

Burns Library copy: artist's handmade bookplate for Eleanor and Fred Reid, November 1953 (loosely inserted).

BURNS copy includes an original colored pen and ink sketch facing note in front; each copy distinct, signed: Jack B. Yeats.

c.1: 95/96 0202