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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First edition. 1994. xii, 315pp. B&W illustrations. Small (0.5cm) closed tear to bottom edge of unclipped dust jacket front cover. Both the book and jacket are otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions, and all contents are tight and clean. "In two parts, covering the periods 1540-1660 and 1660-1850, this volume presents first-hand descriptions of Ireland by English, Scottish and Welsh writers who visited the country, and provides notes on the authors and the historical context of their writings. Among the great range of writers represented are Edmund Campion (visiting in 1570), John Wesley (c.1750), Thomas de Quincey (c.1800), Thomas Carlyle (1849) and Queen Victoria (1870).".…