The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland. With Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated by William Cooper, Esq. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1848. First Edition. Pp x, 111. Early half red morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Spine with raised bands, title lettered directly in gilt along with fly motifs in gilt to compartments. Light shelf wear to binding, otherwise a fine bright copy.

Illustrated with a folded frontispiece plate & twenty lithograph plates (seven folding) within the text.

An Important work on Irish Fishing, written during the Famine. Describing Irish west-coast fisheries for the information of subscribers to any of the projected fishing companies, which, Brabazon feels, cannot but be remunerative if worked under proper management.

The plates illustrate various fishing vessels, nets and trawls for herring, cod, hake, and salmon, hooks and sinkers, lobster traps and oyster dredges. The appendix provides information on fishery boundaries, fishery loan funds, fishery laws, specifications of fishing craft, etc.