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Cork and Dublin: Wordwell, 2014. Soft cover. Fine. Large oblong 8vo., 115pp. Beautiful First Edition, illustrated throughout. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear, Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon title and rarely found signed.

Wordwell, 2015. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Cover has edge wear, minor creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. No writing. .

Dublin: Wordwell, 2015. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition, 2015. Oblong quarto, softcover, illustrated (some in color), 115 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Wordwell, 2014 Book. New. Soft cover. Henry O'Neill is best known as an artist, archaeologist, publisher and polemicist as seen through his various books - The Sculptured Crosses of Ancient Ireland, Ireland for the Irish and The Round Towers of Ireland (Co. Dublin only). But they give a mere inkling of the impressive compendium of work that O'Neill produced throughout a long and active career spanning forty years and more. We find out a lot more through the sketch-books of his that survive, and realise what an incredible amount of travelling and sketching he did through his interest in castles or tower-houses, though he also covered a wide variety of other monuments from prehistoric times almost up to his own day. These sketch-books and note-books have fortunately been preserved in Glenstal Abbey. O'Neill must - along with Petrie, G.V. Du Noyer and W.F. Wakeman - be ranked very highly among Irish antiquarian artists of the late Georgian and Victorian periods, hence the need to restore his… Read More