The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition, and Prospects. By Henry Coulter. Correspondent of Saunder’s’ News-Letter. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1862. First Edition. Pp x, 372, with advertisments at rear. Publisher’s green cloth boards, decorated & lettered in gilt A fine bright copy.

Illustrated throughout with thirty-four tinted lithographs, a folded map of Ireland as frontispiece & a large folded Map of Telegraph Stations at rear.

The author was a correspondent of Saunder’s News-letter, a Dublin newspaper noted for its non-partisan journalism.

The text of the book originally appeared as articles (‘letters’) in the newspaper.