SOMERVILLE, E. OE. & ROSS, Violet Martin. The Hitchcock Edition of Somerville and Ross (Signed limited edition)

With a forward by Harry Worcester Smith. Sporting Works: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.; Further Experience of an Irish R.M.; In Mr. Knox's Country; Dan Russell the Fox; All on the Irish Shore; Wheel Tracts; and Irish Memories. Illustrated by Drawings by E. OE. Somerville and Photographs. Seven volumes. New York: Privately Printed by Derrydale Press, 1927. A superb set.

Royal octavo. Green ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on double black labels on spines. Armorial devices in gilt on upper covers. Green pictorial endpapers. Edition limited to 500 sets [No. 104], signed by Edith OE. Somerville on the half-title of volume one. Top edges gilt. A fine set. Very rare in this superb state.

SOMERVILLE & ROSS — Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, writing as Martin Ross, rank among the most celebrated figures in Irish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Best known for Some Experiences of an Irish R.M., their writing vividly captures the people, landscapes and social life of rural Ireland. Their celebrated literary partnership also produced The Real Charlotte, now regarded as a major Irish novel, alongside travel writing, memoirs and sporting works.

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