Brief Sketches of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donnybrook, in The County of Dublin; with An Appendix, containing Notes and Annals. Three Parts Bound Together. Dublin: George Herbert, 1860, 61, 72. First Edition. Pp v, 488. Small 8vo. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers. Rebound in green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. Library number to tail of spine, text generally bright & clean throughout.

Illustrated with a frontispiece plate & folded map in part two.

The work is divided into three parts, with separate title pages and dates each (First Part 1860, Second Part 1861, Third Part 1872).

The complete edition of Rev. Beaver H. Blacker’s history of two wealthy Church of Ireland parishes in south Dublin. Throughout much of the 19th century the area was a very wealthy enclave of Protestantism and Unionism with influential families living in the fine houses and neighbourhoods.