Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800. London: Cassell, 1954. First Edition. Pp, 47, with 58 pages of monochrome plates. Folio. Smooth blue buckram boards, ttitle lettered in gilt to spine, in publisher’s dust jacket lettered in black. A fine bright copy.

Signed by the author on the half-title.

A study into the bookbindings of Ireland made between 1600 to 1800, showcasing the beautiful designs. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and fifty-eight monochrome plates.

Maurice Craig was an Irish architectural historian & the author of several books on the architectural heritage of Ireland. During the late 1950s, Craig defended the Georgian architectural legacy of the city against development plans which would have destroyed the memory of “colonial Dublin” some 40 years after independence.