Lot 228
SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN – OFFICIAL HANDBOOK, printed by Hely's for The Talbot Press., Dublin, 1932. First Irish editi
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SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN – OFFICIAL HANDBOOK, printed by Hely's for The Talbot Press., Dublin, 1932. First Irish edition. Edited by Bulmer Hobson. 324 pp., 150 (Ads). The Official Handbook of the Irish Free State. Paper by the Swiftbrook Paper Mills and plates by the Irish Photo Engraving Co. An important publication, with brightly illustrated papered boards in a beautiful Celtic design by Art O’ Murnaghan. Profusely illustrated with works by many prominent Irish artists to the interior; over thirty chapters on all aspects of the history, culture, government, geology, art, literature, etc of the country. To the back a pocket contains an ordinance survey map of Ireland.