beautiful ireland leinster ulster munster de williams alexander gwynn stephen (2 résultats)

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Alexander Williams (illustrateur). A brightly illustrated commentary on different areas of Ireland, being Leinster, Ulster, Munster, and Connaught. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, forty-eight colour plates, and numerous decorations. Collated complete. A charming commentary and guide to the four provinces of Ireland, exploring the rich culture and awe-inspiring landscapes, as well as historical references to the ancient kingdoms of these lands. With sections on Leinster, Ulster, Munster, and Connaught. Written by Stephen Lucius Gwynn, an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant Nationalist politician. Illustrated by Alexander Williams, an Irish landscape and marine painter who was also an ornithologist, taxidermist, and professional singer. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading and discolouration to the extremities with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.

First Edition. Octavo (18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). Frontispiece, 64, 64, 64, 64 pages [Total of 256 pages]. Original, beautiful, clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher's original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces. This publication is showing an abundance of beautiful illustrations representing each of the four Provinces of Ireland. Plates in colour include: Leinster: Bay of Dublin from Howth Cliffs / Killiney Bay and Bray Head / Near Abeyleix, Queens Co. / The Port of Dublin / A Hawthorn Glade, Phoenix Park / The River Liffey at Palmerston / Portmarnock Golf Links / The Meeting of the Waters (Woodenbridge) / St.Kevin's Bed and the Church of the Rock, Upper Lake Glendalough / On the River Boyne at Trim / The Bridge of Slane (River Boyne) / On the River Slaney at Ballintemple / Ulster: Muckross Bay, Killibegs, Donegal / Narrow Water Castle, Carlingford Lough / Cave Hill, Belfast / Carrickfergus CAstle, Belfast Lough / The Giants' Causeway / Fair Head, Co.Antrim / Londonderry from the Waterside / Tory Island from Falcarragh Hill, Donegal / Muckish and Ards from Rosapenna, Sheephaven, Donegal / Mount Errigal from the Gweedore River, Donegal / Glenveagh, Donegal / The Entrance to Mulroy Bay, Donegal / Munster: The Old Clocktower, Youghal / The Blackwater at Dromana / Blarney Castle / Ferrybank, Waterford / Shandon Steeple, from the River Lee / Entrance to Cork Harbour / Kenmare Bay, from Templenoe / Macgillicuddy's Reeks / The Gap of Dunloe, Killarney / Muckross Lake, Killarney / Brickeen Bridge, Lower Lake, Killarney / Holy Island, Lough Derg / Connaught: Lough Breenbannia / Lowlands, Ballinlough, Roscommon / Mweelrea and the Killary, from Tully Strand, Renvyle / A Fisherman's Home under Diamond Mountain, Ballynakill Bay / On the Owenbrin River, Lough Mask / Castle Kirke and Upper Lough Corrib / In the Pass of Delphi, Killary Bay / Wrack-gathering on the West Coast / Croagh Patrick from Old Head, Clew Bay / The Minaun Cliffs, Achill Island / Nephin, from Lough Conn / Lough Gill // Sprache: english.