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Early Christian Architecture In Ireland
by Margaret Stokes Illustrated With Woodcuts
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Original Good+ First Edition Large Quarto Green Hardcover With Gilt Celtic Knots and Uncial Lettering on Spine 150 pp. Text. 108 B/W Plates. Large illustrated study of the Earliest Celtic and Irish Christian Churches, Oratories, Round Towers, Dry Stone Walls and Free Standing Celtic Crosses. Also Illuminated Irish Gaelic Manuscript illus and Margaret Stokes historical text on Beehive Clochans and Full page Illus. of St. Michael's Rock. Also Romanesque and Viking Ireland, illustrations on every page. Frontis with tissue. See our photo. Good+ shape slightly shaken with overall age and shelf wear. Clean End Papers. Tall handsome. NOT a library copy. See our Three Geese In Flight Celtic book scans
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6578
- Title
- Early Christian Architecture In Ireland
- Author
- Margaret Stokes Illustrated With Woodcuts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Irish Edition
- Place of Publication
- 1878
- Date Published
- 1878
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- monastic ireland early medieval ireland irish clochans gaelic irish churches aran island stone work round towers st. michael's isle viking ireland romanesque art catholic ireland roman catholic irish churches irish books first editions
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish; Celtic Studies; Medieval and Early Medieval; Celtic Christianity;
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- Gilt
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- Quarto
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- First Edition
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
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