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PICTURESQUE IRELAND: A LITERARY AND ARTISTIC DELINEATION OF THE NATURAL SCENERY, REMARKABLE PLACES, HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ANCIENT ABBEYS, TOWERS, CASTLES, AND OTHER ROMANTIC AND ATTRACTIVE FEATURES OF IRELAND. (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE); Illustrated in Steel and Wood, by Eminent Native and Foreign Artists
by Savage, John (Ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Kelly, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Matching set of two: Large Quarto, 11.8 in. x 9.5 in. Vol I: pp. xxxiii, [8], 6-291, [1]. Vol II: 293-649. Illustrated with twenty-nine steel plates (most with tissue-guards), hundreds of drawings, and thirty-three color maps. Dark green full morocco with multiple decorative gilt frames and Irish harp in gilt to fronts and backs. Beveled boards. Gilt title, five raised bands, with decorative floral designs to each spine panel. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to edges; corners all lightly nudged. Decorative dentelles; rich red marbled boards in nonpareil pattern, to endpapers. Light spotting to front endpapers and first title page. Very occasional spotting to pages and tissue-guards. Unmarked interiors. A lavish, elegant edition. Savage, John. An American journalist and miscellaneous writer; born in Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 13, 1828; died in 1888. He came to New York in 1848, and subsequently in Washington became proprietor of The States, the organ of Stephen A. Douglas. Included in his popular war-songs are âThe Starry Flag' and âThe Muster of the North.' Among his other works are: âOur Living Representative Men' (1860); âPoems: Lyrical, Dramatic, and Romantic' (1870); and âPicturesque Ireland' (1878). (from Bartleby).
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- 86737
- Title
- PICTURESQUE IRELAND: A LITERARY AND ARTISTIC DELINEATION OF THE NATURAL SCENERY, REMARKABLE PLACES, HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ANCIENT ABBEYS, TOWERS, CASTLES, AND OTHER ROMANTIC AND ATTRACTIVE FEATURES OF IRELAND. (TWO VOLUMES, COMPLETE); Illustrated in Steel and Wood, by Eminent Native and Foreign Artists
- Author
- Savage, John (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Kelly
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- Irish scenery
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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