Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Cork. With [18] Illustrations.

Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1920. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 420 pages. 18 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Cracks to valley of index pages near rear of textblock. Binding still good and firm and text block is solid and square. Some untrimmed pages. Foxing to edges and to endpapers and very occasionally to interior. An extremely scarce publication.

Includes, for example, the following: Preface by Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross / The Patron Saint of Cork / The Abbey of the Cave / The Danish Period / The Anglo-Normans in Cork / The Formation of the Diocese of Cork / Episcopal Succession A.D. 876-1429 / Bishops of Cork and Cloyne, A.D 1429-1582 / Religious Houses in the Diocese / The Reign of Elizabeth / Bishops of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, A.D. 1583-1638 / The Restoration and After / The Georgian Bishops of Cork / Appendices – A. Charter of Dermot MacCarthy -C. Taxation of Cork and Suburbs – H. Amalgamation of Dignities and Canonries / Index etc.

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Five – Local Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Cloyne · County Cork · Diocese of Ross · History of Cork · History of County Cork · History of West Cork · Irish History – Rare · West Cork · West Cork Rare Book Fair 2022
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120305AB

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