Book Details
| Author: | Barlow, Jane: |
| Title: | Irish Ways. |
| Published: | London: George Allen & Sons, 1911. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 19 - Irish |
| Description: | Second edition. With illustrations in colour and black and white by Warwick Goble. xi, 262 pp. Frontispiece - the haunted boreen, and 15 other charming colour plates depicting scenes of Irish country life. Frontispiece & two plates loose. Rear ep removed. A collection of 15 stories portraying life in rural Ireland in the early 1900's. Contents include: Ourselves and our Island, Under the Hill, An Unfinished Romance, John the Ghost, A Woman ever Vext, The Loan of a Pencil, Michael the Meditator etc. The author describes Irish country people " who are by nature sociable, pleasure-loving, keen-witted people, and also by nature, prone to melancholy and mysticism. It is for them a day of small things. Scant opportunities and resources constrain them to exercise their ingenuity on trifles, to plan and scheme, perhaps for gains most petty in the view of the more affluent, or perhaps simply for the sake of employing their idle brains". Text clean except for browning on ffrp. Previous owner's bookplate on fep and previous owner's inscription on ffep. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Top edge gilt. Top and bottom of spine rubbed. Edges and corners of boards lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8207 |
| Price: | € 42.00 |
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