Wilde’s Loch Coirib. It’s Shores and Islands with Notices of Loch Measga. The Third Edition Edited with Introduction and Index by Colm O’Lochlainn. Dublin: Three candles, 1938. Pp, 319. Reprint. Finely bound in half green morocco over floral patterned paper boards; spine with raised bands, compartments ruled in gilt with shamrock motifs. Neat ownership name to front free endpaper.

Illustrated throughout with text illustrations and with folded map at rear.

A classic account of Ireland’s second largest lake and it’s surrounding area, the first edition was published in 1867. This printing is illustrated with the original woodcuts from that edition.

William Wilde, antiquarian and father of Oscar Wilde lived for much of the year in a holiday home ‘Moytura House’ near the village of Cong on the Galway/Mayo border. 

A lovely gift copy