Description
Full leather binding. Includes fold out map of Ireland at the front and fold out distance chart at the rear.
The spine is chipped at the head and tail and there are some marks to the boards. There is a closed tear to the map. The binding is tight and the text is clean. This edition does not include plates.
William Wenman Seward, a Dublin solicitor, was the author of “Topographia Hibernica: or the topography of Ireland, antient and modern, giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom” which was published in 1795. The Topographia expanded on his previous work – the “Hibernian Gazetteer” – by providing considerably more historical information on the towns and villages of Ireland along with the civil and ecclesiastical details of the places covered.
