EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND
London, England: George Bell and Sons, 1878. Hardcover. Quarto, 11.25 in. x 7.5 in., pp. viii, 142, [12], 143-160, [104] (52 plates). Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis, 48 in-text woodcuts, and 52 full-page woodcut engravings. Three two-page unpaginated tables and references bound at books center. Dark green cloth boards with frame and Celtic designs stamped in blind to front and back. Rubbing to extremities with chips to spine cap. One inch closed tear near top of froint gutter. Corners nudged and just showing. Previous owner's armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light age-toning to pages. Good. Item #88797
Margaret Stokes (1832 - 1900) was born in Dublin and lived in Merrion Square until her father’s death. In later life she lived at Howth, County Dublin. Her talent as an artist was evident and she worked with many Irish antiquarian scholars and Members of the Royal Irish Academy, editing and illustrating their books. ... She was the first woman born in Ireland to be elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (1876). (Women were not permitted to become full Members in her lifetime.) In later life she published some of her research under her own name, in illustrated books such as Early Christian architecture in Ireland (1878) and Early Christian art in Ireland (1887). (from The Royal Irish Academy).
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