Ireland its Scenery, Character & History

Ireland Its Scenery, Character & History. 1911. Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Company.

8vo. 3/4 Green morocco over marbled boards with matching marbled pastdowns and endpapers. Top edges gilt. Some chipped edges on the top of Volume IV and Volume VI. Every frontispiece plate is in black and white and has a corresponding colored plate. There are other colored plates within the volumes as well, often depicting greenery and nature. It is stated on the inside (see pic) that this is the KILLARNEY EDITION and was limited to 100 copies, of which this is the 7th one. An immensely beautiful set of books.

Ireland Its Scenery, Character & History, written by Samuel Carter Hall and his wife Anna Maria Hall after extensive tours through the country, the work combines vivid descriptive travel writing with engravings, local lore, historical sketches, and character studies of the Irish people. It became one of the Victorian era’s most influential portrayals of Ireland—richly illustrated, sympathetic in tone, and shaped by the Halls’ aim to present Irish landscape, antiquities, and daily life to an English readership with both romantic color and documentary detail.

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