BOVET, Madame de. Three Months’ Tour in Ireland. Translated and condensed by Mrs. Arthur Walter.

With illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891. 8vo. 312pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth, upper cover attractively decorated in gilt with a trailing shamrock design, spine lettered in gilt. Light occasional spotting, principally to preliminary leaves; contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

An engaging late nineteenth-century account of a journey through Ireland, beginning in Dublin and travelling through Wicklow, Waterford and Kilkenny, Cork, Killarney and Kerry, Limerick and Clare, Galway and Connemara, Achill, Sligo, Enniskillen, Donegal, the Giant’s Causeway and Belfast. The work is particularly attractive for its numerous illustrations of Irish scenery, architecture and everyday life, including Dublin street scenes, Glendalough, Gougane Barra, Killarney, Connemara and other notable locations. Written from the perspective of a continental visitor, Bovet combines travel observations with commentary on Irish society, religion and politics at a particularly significant period in the Home Rule era.

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