TALES OF IRISH LIFE AND CHARACTER

by Hall Mrs., nee Fleming Anna Maria Hall

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1913. Octavo, sixteen plates with color illustrations from paintings by Erskine Nicol, original green cloth stamped in black and gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Later printing of this edition, first published in 1909. Eleven somewhat comical stories of Irish peasant life. The illustrations have something of the flavor of the Dutch masters, with their attention to homely detail.

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