The cabinet of Irish literature : - selections from the works of the chief poets, orators, and prose writers of Ireland / - with biographical sketches and literary notices by Charles A. Read. - Volume I.
Date
1902.
Collection
Creator(s)
Talwin Morris, Charles A Read, David Rodger, Katharine Tynan, Gresham Publishing
Code
111419
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Grey endpapers.
Dark emerald green cloth boards. Design in gilt: on front cover, inside a frame knotted in the corners, a knotted lattice with blackberries (or similar) in the interstices, three spaced open circles on each side, the title in hand-drawn serifed capitals in a small oblong frame with small shamrock leaves; matching spine; on the back cover a small central lattice of five berries. The publisher's advertisement at the front of vol. 1 states "The cover design ... is the work of Talwin Morris ..." (LO/C32). New edition revised and greatly extended by Katharine Tynan Hinkson. From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. 2 pages, (2) leaves, xxxv, 311 pages, 8 pages, (10) leaves of plates : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; 26cm
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