William Laffan Editor (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket present. The book is in good condition with a solid binding and clean pages. The cover shows minimal wear, typical for its age, with no dust jacket present. There are no inscriptions or library markings, ensuring a clean copy for collectors or researchers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. The book is in excellent condition with a sturdy binding and clean, unmarked pages. There are no inscriptions or library markings. The cover shows minimal wear, maintaining its original color and texture. No dust jacket is present.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. This hardcover edition is in good condition with a maroon textured cover featuring gold lettering. The binding is intact, with no significant wear to the exterior. There is no dust jacket, and the pages are clean and unmarked, free from inscriptions or library markings.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly rubbed rear board and no bumping to corners. 64pp. Index to Volumes I-X of the Journal of the Irish Georgian Society. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gandon Editions, Published 2008. Paperback, 272 pp.; 24 cm; profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white with photographs, engravings, architectural drawings, plans, and portraits. In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated paper covers with French flaps; front cover reproduces Hugh Douglas Hamilton's portrait "Lady Cockburn and her Three Sons." Mild shelf wear with light surface scuffing to the black rear cover. Binding tight; interior clean and unmarked.Volume XI (2008) of the annual journal of the Irish Georgian Society, devoted to the architectural history and decorative arts of Ireland. Edited by William Laffan, with a foreword by the Knight of Glin. Ten scholarly essays on Georgian and nineteenth-century Irish subjects, illustrated throughout.Contents: Foreword (The Knight of Glin); Authors' biographies; Bishop Pococke's improvements to St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny (Rachel Finnegan); Hard times: an episode in the life of the Belfast portrait painter Samuel Hawksett (Eileen Black); 'Doing Everything of Marble wch can be Done with it': some descriptive accounts of the Kilkenny Marble Works (Tony Hand); A 'good figure': the story of George Cockburn (1764-1847) as revealed through contemporary letters and papers (Jane Meredith); Merchants and material culture in early nineteenth-century Dublin: a consumer case study (Anna Moran); Three mausolea and a church: the drawings of James C. Murphy for his book on Batalha of 1795 (Michael McCarthy); Irish civic planting, c.1740-c.1890 (Patrick Bowe); Charles Lanyon at Glenarm (Anne Casement); 'Gallwey's Castle, Carrick': Edward Cheney's drawings of Ormond Castle in the early nineteenth century (Jane Fenlon).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. Mild edge wear to wraps. A superior edition.

Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 288pp. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society for 2006. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, quarto, 9 1/5" x 9", slight backward lean else a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, the text is clean and unmarked, colour plates, b&w illustrations, 192pp.Print run of 2,500 copies.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 272pp. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society for 2007. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 272pp. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society for 2008. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 224pp. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society for 2009. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

Soft Cover with Self-Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 272pp. The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society for 2005. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.75 inches.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 271 pp., illustrated throughout many in colour. [ISBN-10: 0948037210 / ISBN-13: 978-0948037214] Laminated wrappers. A fine bright copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 272 pp., illustrated throughout many in colour. [ISBN-10: 0948037709 / ISBN-13: 978-0948037702] Laminated wrappers. A fine bright copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 140 pages. Illustrated. 270x210mm. Original pictorial card covers with flaps. 39 short essays on selected Irish paintings from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Artists represented include: John Boyne, Mildred Anne Butler, George Chinnery, Charles Collins, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Howard Helmick, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, Nathaniel Hone (elder), Nathaniel Hone (younger), John Lavery, William John Leech, Judith Lewis, Frederick Edward McWilliam, William Henry Maguire, Colin Middleton, George Mullins, Jame Arthur O'Connor, Roderic O'Conor, William Orpen, Walter Frederick Osborne, Matthew William Peters, Sarah Purser, William Scott, Mary Swanzy, Joseph Wilson, John Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats. A fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Images and further information available on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated. 235x235mm. Original publisher's cloth, spine lettered gilt, with original pictorial unclipped dust jacket. *Essays in this beautifully produced book with folding plates include: Burke's The Sublime and the Beautiful and Irish Landscape; Irish Artists in Rome in the Eighteenth Century; Reflections on and Memories of Irish Painting.* A fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Images and further information available on request. *** WEIGHT OVER 1 KG. EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGE (AT COST) WILL BE REQUESTED FOR DELIVERIES OUTSIDE OF IRELAND AND UNITED KINGDOM ***.…

FIRST EDITION 8vo. (approx. 24 x 17cm) softback with illustrated card covers. 272pp., profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. A VG clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. (203 Box 10) ISBN: 9780948037702 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 288 pp., illustrated throughout many in colour. Laminated wrappers. A fine bright copy.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This new, unmarked, and seemingly unread, copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The text block is tight white, bright and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Lavishly illustrated throughout with colour and black and white plates. Contents Include: The classical taste of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704-1793) by Rachel Finnegan; The stuccowork of Pat McAuliffe of Listowel' by Sean Lynch; Thomas Cooley before the Dublin Royal Exchange' by Ruth Thorpe; 'New light on Ballyfin and the mysterious Dominick Madden, Part I' by Patricia McCarthy and Kevin V Mulligan; The White Quarry, Ardbraccan' by Tony Hand; A regency artist in Ireland, Maria Spilsbury Taylor(1776-1820). These journals of The Irish Georgian Society are paramount to the understanding of Irish Architecture and are continuously growing in popularity. Ref BBB 3.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 208 pp., illustrated throughout some in colour. Laminated wrappers. A fine bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 11.50x10.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper. Please contact me for further details of this book or other titles not presently listed. My main speciality is IRISH BOOKS. To see other books on this subject click on: "MORE BOOKS FROM THIS SELLER" and then type in IRISH under KEYWORDS, which can be filtered further by history [which includes politics], literary , topography & "Art". I have built up my collection over 30 year and I am constantly acquiring new stock. Do contact me for more information of further titles not presently listed. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Contents include Finnegan on Bishop Pococke's improvements to St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny; Hand, The Kilkenny Marble Works; Moran, Merchants and material culture in early 19th century Dublin; Casement, Charles Lanyon at Glenarm; and Bowe on Irish civic planning, c.1740 - c. 1890.…