THE ROUGH FIELD (SIGNED)

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Royal Octavo. (10 in. x 6 1/4 in.) Quarterbound brick-red leather spine, over light olive paper covered boards with the black image of a bard to front board, and gilt lettering to spine. Limited signed edition No. 14 of 150 copies ("This limited edition consists of one hundred and fifty copies signed by the author and specially bound of which one hundred twenty five copies are for sale". Includes Eleven hand-coloured illustrations (Miller 197) adapted from woodcuts by John Derricke in "The Image of Irelande", with "A Discovery of Woodkarne" 1581. small colored seal of the Society of United Irish Men, with a harp within an oval. 80 pp. John Montague's sequence about Northern Ireland, which achieved wide acclaim, was performed on stage in Dublin and London, and broadcast by Radio Eireann. 10 point and 8 point Jubilee type.

Publisher/Designer Liam Miller designed the books he issued, around the sense of the text, rather than force the text into some inhospitable housing of boards and glue. Thus he could unify the power and beauty and message of the poet's song with the physical vessel, and as in this case, the entire, unified elegance, from spirit to Irish bodies of ferocity and resolve, could fly as high and soar as far as they could be seen with the attentive eye and open heart.