Ulster Leaders Social and Political.

Gaskell, Ernest:

Published by London: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, 1914.

About this Item

Printed solely for private circulation at three guineas. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. No pagination. Biographies of some 117 men (no women) with photographs of many of them. Nine-two of the subjects are Justices of the Peace, including, and alongside, Lords Lieutenant, Earls, owners of large estates, the Archbishop of Armagh, County Councillors, doctors, James Craig and Edward Carson. Ernest Gaskell seems to have been Carrie Amy Campion, later Mrs North, died 1910. The series of Leaders Social and Political may have run to about twenty-five volumes, published between 1890 and 1920. This volume, which covers the former nine-county Ulster, was probably the only Irish volume published. Half red morocco and red cloth, six panelled spine, gilt shamrock to panels, gilt spine titling, gilt title to front board, a.e.g., and original gold-and-brown decorative endpapers. Original spine professionally relaid. Showing some wear, and some fading to boards. There are small pencilled ticks against some of the names on the contents list. A very scarce item. Seller Inventory # 15103

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ulster Leaders Social and Political.

Publisher: London: The Queenhithe Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, 1914.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good