Description
Gandon Editions, Published 2008. Paperback, 272 pp.; 24 cm; profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white with photographs, engravings, architectural drawings, plans, and portraits.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
112
Turn the pages with the arrows, keyboard, or a swipe.
Catalog notes
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers with French flaps; front cover reproduces Hugh Douglas Hamilton's portrait "Lady Cockburn and her Three Sons." Mild shelf wear with light surface scuffing to the black rear cover. Binding tight; interior clean and unmarked.Volume XI (2008) of the annual journal of the Irish Georgian Society, devoted to the architectural history and decorative arts of Ireland. Edited by William Laffan, with a foreword by the Knight of Glin. Ten scholarly essays on Georgian and nineteenth-century Irish subjects, illustrated throughout.Contents: Foreword (The Knight of Glin); Authors' biographies; Bishop Pococke's improvements to St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny (Rachel Finnegan); Hard times: an episode in the life of the Belfast portrait painter Samuel Hawksett (Eileen Black); 'Doing Everything of Marble wch can be Done with it': some descriptive accounts of the Kilkenny Marble Works (Tony Hand); A 'good figure': the story of George Cockburn (1764-1847) as revealed through contemporary letters and papers (Jane Meredith); Merchants and material culture in early nineteenth-century Dublin: a consumer case study (Anna Moran); Three mausolea and a church: the drawings of James C. Murphy for his book on Batalha of 1795 (Michael McCarthy); Irish civic planting, c.1740-c.1890 (Patrick Bowe); Charles Lanyon at Glenarm (Anne Casement); 'Gallwey's Castle, Carrick': Edward Cheney's drawings of Ormond Castle in the early nineteenth century (Jane Fenlon).