Somerville Large Peter Fiennes Mark (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/V. 320pp, b/w illustrations throughout, index, spine sunned dustjacket edges rubbed & bumped, fore edge thumbed. The account of a year long tour around Ireland. 1150 grams.

Condition: Very Good. 2nd edition. Imitation cloth, dj, VG/VG. xiv+306pp, b/w frontis, 32pp colour plates, 95 b/w illustrations, index, dustjacket edges rubbed & bumped, fore edge thumbed. A history of Dublin, from its foundation by the Vikings onwards. 1400 grams.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320p. : ill. ; 26cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Subjects: Somerville-Large, Peter. Ireland ; Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. Fifteenth Printing. xiii + 289pp + Index; As new; Profusely illustrated with photos by FIENNES, MARK and others; Size: 4to. FIENNES, MARK (illustrator). Book.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 320p. : ill. ; 26cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Subjects: Somerville-Large, Peter. Ireland ; Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [16], 384 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography: p. 367-373. - and index. Summary; For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers' tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called "rural sovereigns", describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses. Subjects; Country life - Ireland - History. Nobility - Ireland - History. Country homes - Ireland. Ireland - Social life and customs. Country homes - Ireland - History. Ireland - Social life and customs. Ireland - History. Country houses - Social life - History. Ireland. Northern Ireland. Country houses - British Isles - Ireland. Nobility - British Isles - Ireland. Ireland - History - Social. Social & cultural history ; British & Irish history. History / Europe / Ireland. Country houses : Ireland ; Houses : Social history : Ireland ; Ireland : social history. Genre; Illustrated. 4 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; [16], 384 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography: p. 367-373. - and index. Summary; For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers' tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called "rural sovereigns", describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses. Subjects; Country life - Ireland - History. Nobility - Ireland - History. Country homes - Ireland. Ireland - Social life and customs. Country homes - Ireland - History. Ireland - Social life and customs. Ireland - History. Country houses - Social life - History. Ireland. Northern Ireland. Country houses - British Isles - Ireland. Nobility - British Isles - Ireland. Ireland - History - Social. Social & cultural history ; British & Irish history. History / Europe / Ireland. Country houses : Ireland ; Houses : Social history : Ireland ; Ireland : social history. Genre; Illustrated. 4 Kg. …

Condition: Sehr gut. 19 cm x 25 cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Clean inside with solid binding. Includes for example the following sections: Newgrange; Loo Bridge; Kenmare / Killarney / Ring of Kerry / The Blackwater; Mount Melleray / Lough Gur; Doneraile; Kanturk / Galway; Ballinhinch; Clifden / Achilll; Newport; Balycroy / Bangor Erris; Belmulet; Killala / Cavan; Drogheda; Dublin; Glendalough / Ballyshannon; Glencolumbkille; Bunbeg / Strabane; Antrim; Belfast etc. "Peter Somerville-Large's intention was perfectly straightforward: he would wander slowly around Ireland during the course of a year. In a sense, that is what he did, but his Grand Irish Tour is something far more ambitious and far more satisfying. Unlike any other twentieth century writer, he has evoked the landscapes and townscapes, the people, and the the different memories which make up Ireland. He contrasts the present with what he knew as a boy, but he also draws on the diaries and records of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travellers. here is Thomas Carlyle in 1849, using stream of consciousness as if Joyce were already writing. Here is the bizarre Mr Atkinson, forever collecting substcriptions to his books. Here are Somerville and Ross in their governess cart; Mrs Delaney ensconced at Mount Panther; Thackeray fending off the appalling guides at the Giant's Causeway; the intrepid Asenath Nicholson, hoping to combat Catholicism with true American fervour; the Chevalier de Latocnaye, exchanging the horrors of the French Revolution for the dubious comforts of Irish inns. And, further back in history, there is the extraordinary Don Francisco de Cuellar, A survivor of the Spanish Armada who wrote an account of his hair raising adventures." (Publisher). …