HAYWARD, Richard. Munster and the City of Cork (FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION)

With pencil drawings by Raymond Piper. London: Phoenix House, 1964. Crown octavo. pp. xiv, 354. Bound in full green morocco, Blarney Castle in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine; green and white endbands; cream endpapers with illustration of the Blasket Islands. Limited edition of 100 copies only, signed by the author and illustrator on limitation page. Loosely inserted is a memoriam card to Richard Hayward. A very fine copy in slipcase. The very rare limited edition.
Maurice Walsh said that Richard Hayward knows Ireland, from the centre to the sea, better than any man alive, and it has long being manifest to his readers that the author writes about his country with a deep and loving knowledge of its history, pre-history, folklore, topography, archaeology, humour and song.