062 The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland, Complete 4 Volumes
Hardcover. The “genius, the fire, the pathos, the humour, and the eloquence of Irish literature” is on glorious display in this circa 1880 complete four volume set of The Cabinet of Irish Literature, bound in full emerald green cloth over bevelled boards, gloriously decorated with Celtic knots and shamrocks in black and bright gilt, with Irish winged-maiden harps gleaming from each front cover, singing the praises of the Irish writers within, complemented beautifully by edges in burnished olivine. Arranged chronologically from the year 1600 to the late 19th century, this treasury of selections from and biographical sketches of Irish writers includes Jonathan Swift, proto-feminist novelist Lady Morgan, Maria Edgeworth (a favorite of Jane Austen’s), Oliver Goldsmith, J. Sheridan Le Fanu (author of the sapphic vampire novella Carmilla), Edmund Burke, Thomas Moore, William Carleton, Anna Brownell Jameson, Thomas Keightley (author of Fairy Mythology), Lady Jane Wilde (“Speranza,” folklorist and mother of Oscar Wilde), Annie Keary, Patrick Weston Joyce, and more, fully illustrated in 8 tissue-guarded monohromatic lithographed portraits to each volume. Bindings remain firm and sound. Occasional toning or spot of foxing, else pages are clean and unmarked.
Each Book Width 7″ (18cm) Height 10″ (25.5cm) €395