VARIETIES OF IRISH HISTORY; FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN SOURCES AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS (Limited Large-Paper Edition with 4 Chromolithographs and Colour Fold-out Map)
Dublin, Ireland: William B. Kelly, 8 Grafton Street, 1869. Limited Large Paper Edition (250 Copies Only). Hardcover. Quarto. Green and Gilt cloth, with bold, orange banner as part of elaborate design to front board, featuring An Irish harp and strands of clover, bordered in gilt with chaining within the gilt borders, in blind. Beveled edges. Boards only show some ripping from past water contact, but evidence within. Front hinge just starting (an inch at top and 2 inches at bottom), but holding very tight. Armorial Bookplate of William Jackson Piggott ("Hic Et Ulubris") to front pastedown. Titling to title page in black and red. Very wide margins bordering fairly narrow (3 1/4 in.) textblock.
Four lovely tipped-in chromo-lithographs: (Dalkey Island and Sorrento; Kingstown; Killiney Bay and Hill; Bray Head and Esplanade.) Kelly's Colour Map of The Environs of Dublin including The County of Wicklow (19 1/2 in. x 13 1/2). Very Good. Item #88675
Price: $200.00