Gleanings in the West of Ireland

by Godolphin Sydney Osborne

$650 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

London: T. & W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,258pp. Embossed green cloth, gold lettering on front board. One of the first socio-anthropological journalistic investigations of the lower classes of Ireland in the aristocratically oriented 19th century. Chapter subjects include Wretched condition of Inmates, Famine cases, Starved Children, Evictions their cruelty and effect on the People,

• Binding: Hardcover

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