21. Lyndsay, Roy.

The Character of Ireland. [Signed by the Artist]

Mullingar, R.K.L. Publication, 2019. Oblong – Quarto. 160 pages with wonderful illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition. Signed. [We ship per UPS Express Courier worldwide]

22. Fitzgibbon, Margaret.

Fitzgibbon – One That Always Remains – With an Essay by Aidan Dunne (″Human Ties”).

Cork, Triskel Arts Centre, 1992. Octavo. 32 pages including a photograph and short-biography of the aartist to the rear of the publication. Wih several image sof sculpture and art by Margaret Fitzgibbon. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Signed and inscribed by the artist in September 1992.

23. [Building News].

The Building News and Engineering Journal – Six Volumes bound in Five – With c. 600 original, stunning Lithographs of Architectural Buildings and Designs [Volume XIV (which is the complete Year 1867, January to December, but erroneously says 1868 on spine) / Volume XXII and Volume XXIII (which is the complete Year 1872, January to December) PLUS: Three Volumes with hundreds of plates / illustrations for the years 1873, 1877 and 1878. Being the very rare Illustrations / Plates – Volumes only (no text) for 1873: Volume The Twenty-Fourth / Volume Twenty-Fifth and 1877: Volume The Thirty-Second / Volume The Thirty-Third and 1878: Volume The Thirty-Fourth and Volume The Thirty-Fifth.

London, Office for Publication and Advertisements, 1868 / 1872 / 1873 / 1877 / 1878. (23 cm x 32.5 cm). All Five Volumes together contain c. 600 stunning lithographs / plates of which c. 180 are large, double-page-plates. [c. 60 plates missing or defect.] Original Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Overall very firm and in very good condition of the five volumes with occasional pages missing or some illustrations torn (see detailed descriptions of pagination). The 1873 Volume excellent. The Volumes 1877 and 1878 with some stronger fraying and dampstain-damage to the corners (Illustrations NOT effected). The price for these 5 heavy Volumes includes international free UPS Express shipping.

24. [Crozier, William (″Bill”)] Crouan, Katharine / Kennedy, S. B. / Vann, Philip.

William Crozier. [Signed by William “Bill” Crozier during a Summer Exhibition at James Wray & Co. (including the invitation to the former owners of this book) and the book comes with a small collection of little catalogues and publications on Crozier, advertising material etc.]. Edited by Katharine Crouan / With Essays by S.B.Kennedy and Philip Vann.

Hampshire / Burlington, Lund Humphries, 2007. 8°. 208 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Bill Crozier on the titlepage.

25. [Gore-Booth, Colum Robert] / [Lady Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth] / [Constance Georgine Markievicz née Gore-Booth] / [Lissadell House County Sligo].

Two Manuscript Sketch-Books [12” x 10”] bearing the Bookplate “Lady Gore Booth – Lissadell, Sligo [No.43]”. Both Folio-Size Sketch Books titled ‘The “Wood” Sketch Book’, both issued by ‘St. John’s Wood Art School’: 29, Elm Tree Road, London, NW 8. [Founded 1878]. Each Sketch-Book has 50 pages and most pages have manuscript sketches with a few loose sketches tipped in. The very accomplished drawings all appear to be in pencil and show landscapes, trees, horses, portraits, male and female figures, skulls. They all appear to be in the same hand. Also, tipped in is a b/w photo, 6” x 4” mounted on a card. It is signed in pencil by Roberts of Paris. Stamped on the back is “Roberts” 11, Rue du Havre. In pencil, it states “Elizabeth aged 11, May 1922”. From our research it is certain, that Colum Robert Gore-Booth (1913-1959) attended St.John’s Wood Art School and these appear to be his Sketch-Pads, the only other member of the Gore-Booth family who went to London in order to become an artist was Colum’s aunt, Constanze Markiewicz, who attended Slade School of Art at the turn of the century but the drawings do not fit her style.

Two Volumes. London, St.John’s Wood Art Schools / Lissadell House County Sligo, c.1920 – 1930. Folio. Volume I: 118 pages (59 perforated sheets), with 87 studies, often with sketching on both sides of the sheets / Volume II: 100 pages (50 perforated sheets), with 46 studies inside the sketch-book plus two portrait-sketches loosely inserted, plus the photograph of one “Elizabeth”, dated May 1922 and signed by photographer “Roberts” 11, Rue du Havre, Paris. Publisher’s illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

26. Wright, Thomas.

Louthiana – Or, An Introduction To The Antiquities of Ireland – In Upwards of Ninety Views and Plans : Representing, with proper explanations, the principal Ruins, Curiosities and Antient [sic] Dwellings in the County of Louth. Taken upon the Spot by Thomas Wright, Author of the Physical and Mathematical Elements of Astronomy, &c. Engraved by Paul Fourdrinier.

The second Edition revised and corrected, with some few Additions by the Author. Three Volumes in One. London, Printed for Thomas Payne, next the Mews-Gate, in Castle-Street, DSt.Martins; and sold by Mess.Ewing, Dublin, 1758. Quarto (24 cm wide x 30 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece showing “The Monument of the Battle of the Boyne”, two-coloured titlepage (lettering in black and red), Preface with printed Dedication (2 pages) to James, Earl of Clanbrassele, with two smaller Text-Illustrations showing Views of Dundalk and a Map of Dundalk Bay (4 pages), Book I: 16 pages of Text plus 20 full-page Plates (complete) / Volume II: 8 pages Text, Two smaller Text-Illustrations of the Mouth of the Boyn [sic] and of St.Laurence’s Gate of Doroghedah [sic]), 24 Full-page Plates (complete) / Volume III: 20 pages text, with one smaller Text-Illustration of the Bay of Carlingford, plus 22 full-page Plates. Collation complete ! Hardcover / Original full calf of the 18th century with orignal spine-label and gilt ornament on spine. Binding still holding but both boards nearly detached (in need of repair). Interior in very good condition with all of the fascinating plates present. Some minor creasing to some plates and only very slight foxing to very few plates. A Rare original version of this sought after Book !!

27. Potterton, Homan.

Illustrated Summary Catalogue of Paintings. Introduction by Homan Potterton, Director.

Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1981. 24.2cm x 18.7cm. xxxxii, 363 pages. With 2,200 illustrations. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. Kennedy, Brian P.

Irish Painting.

Dublin, Town House, 1993. Octavo. 141 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Now out of print.

29. Harbison, Peter.

Cooper’s Ireland – Drawings and Notes from an Eighteenth-Century Gentleman.

Dublin, The O’Brien Press, 2000. 23.s cm x 23.5 cm. 288 pages. 132 black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

30. Youngs, Susan (Editor).

‘The Work of Angels’ – Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th Centuries AD. With contributions by Paul T. Craddock, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Michael Ryan and Leslie Webster.

London, British Museum Publications Ltd., 1990. 22 cm x 27.5 cm. 223 pages. 185 black and white and 56 colour illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.