The History of Bandon. Cork: Henry & Coghlan, 1862. First Edition. Pp xv, 374. Ex library copy, with stamps. Rebound in half calf, cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. neat ownership name to title page. Stain to margin of first chapter page, otherwise a fair copy throughout. .

The scarce first edition of this important work.

An enlarged edition was published in 1869 entitled: ‘The History of Bandon, and the principal towns in the West Riding of County Cork.’ This edition contained two chromo-lithographic illustrations and expanded to almost 600 pages.