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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Petra Schnabel (illustrator). First Edition. pp xi, 302. HEAVY VOLUME - additional postage will be requested at processing stage for shipping outside of Ireland. 'This volume explores the diversity of the works that the library curates through discussion of: the nature and origins of the collections and artefacts; the people who have shaped and commented on them over the course of time; the ways in which this major national resource has enhanced our understanding of Ireland, its people and its place in the world. The volume highlights the Library's collection of over 1,400 manuscripts in the Irish language; the records of the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey; rare scientific and natural history imprints; the incomparable Haliday Pamphlet and Tract collections; the rich Forde-Pigot collection of Irish airs; thousands of antiquarian drawings covering the entire island, and much more.' Profusely illustrated.