The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Comprising an Essay on the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, Which Obtained the Gold Medal and Prize of the Royal Irish Academy
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. Hardcover. Rebound in brown cloth boards, blind stamped Celtic design on covers, bound with parts of original spine with gilt lettering; XXI, 519 pp, bw illustrations. Good (recently rebound, dampstaining and foxing mainly along borders of pages, previous owner's name on ffep, pages are otherwise clear). Item #189328
"Vol. I." A projected second, or supplementary, volume was never published. "Originally written for, and presented to the Royal Irish Academy, as an Essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland ... In its present form, the work contains not only the original Essay on the round towers, very much enlarged, but also distinct essays on our ancient stone churches and other ecclesiastical buildings of contemporaneous age with the round towers."--Preface Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC: 3944913
Price: $600.00