Gleanings in the West of Ireland
London: T. & W. Boone, New Bond Street, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xii,258pp. Embossed green cloth, gold lettering on front board. One of the first socio-anthropological journalistic investigations of the lower classes of Ireland in the aristocratically oriented 19th century. Chapter subjects include Wretched condition of Inmates, Famine cases..... More