The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition, and Prospects. By Henry Coulter. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1862. First Edition. Pp x , 372. Ex library copy, with stamps. Cloth covers lightly worn along spine, otherwise a very good copy. Rebound in green cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated throughout with a folded map of Ireland, with 35 coloured plates. Note: Lacks the map of Telegraph Stations which is invariably missing.

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.