HENRY, Francoise. Irish Art: In the early Christian period to 800; During the Viking Invasions 800-1020; In the Romanesque Period 1020-1170 A.D.

THE DEFINITIVE WORK

Three volumes. Profusely illustrated with coloured and mono plates. London: Methuen, 1965/70. Revised edition. Medium quarto. pp. (1) xvi, 256, 112, viii, (2) xvi, 236, 112, viii, (3) xvi, 240, 112. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib with labels and neat stamps. A very good set in frayed dust jackets. Scarce.

Françoise Henry (1902–1982) was a pioneering French-born scholar of Irish art and archaeology. Settling in Ireland, she taught at University College Dublin and became a leading authority on early Christian Irish art. Her influential studies of illuminated manuscripts, sculpture and metalwork helped establish Irish medieval art as an internationally recognised field of scholarship.

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