Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
London: Alex Tiranti, 1967. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, maps on pastedowns & flyleaves, 124 pp. plus 173 BW plates and 4 color plates tipped in. VG. creasing to cover corners. textblock split at cover hinge; textblock & pgs firmly attached. tanning to opening pgs. interior clean. dustjacket scuffed, worn & tanned w/ some light foxing & staining. Item #144726
ISBN: 9780854580002
"Any study of Dublin plasterwork must concern itself mainly with work of the eighteenth century. This is so for two reasons. The Dublin stuccodores' craft reached a singular perfection in that century and notwithstanding the loss their work has suffered and still undergoes in the vicissitudes of the city's growth, examples of its various excellence are still abundant and are accessible for study. Secondly, though the history of the city goes back more than a thousand years Dublin possesses few buildings of an earlier date than 1700, and one can gather only from written records and from analogy with other Irish work of equal date what sort of plaster decoration embellished the early houses of its merchants or public buildings." (preface) With many intriguing plates.
OCLC: 3024572
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