Crookshank, Anne; FitzGerald, Desmond (The Knight of Glin)

The Painters of Ireland c.1660 - 1920.

London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1978. Formaat: 4 to, hardcover without dustjacket, 304 pp.. ISBN: 0214204928

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Book number: 11980

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Keywords: Irish art, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century 0214204928

Anne Crookshank; the Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzgerald]

The Painters of Ireland C. 1660-1920

London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. Cloth. A very smart second edition of this illustrated work devoted to the paintings of Ireland. Second edition. Illustrated with sixty-five colour plates, two hundred and eighty-five monochrome images, and numerous head and tail pieces. Collated complete. A history of the paintings of Ireland from 1660 to 1920, including reference to the Irish social and artistic backgrounds of both native painters, those who worked across the seas, and foreign artists working from Ireland. With chapters on portrait painters, landscape painting, the Irish in Rome, decorative painters, the Act of Union, subject pictures, and the influence of Antwerp, Paris, Brittany, and London. Written by Anne Olivia Crookshank, a pioneering Irish art historian, and emeritus professor of the history of art at Trinity College Dublin, the department she established in 1966, and Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th and final Knight of Glin, an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight, and author. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 937T43

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Keywords: Painters Ireland Crookshank Knight of Glin Ireland Not Stated

Anne Crookshank; the Knight of Glin [Desmond Fitzgerald]

The Watercolours of Ireland: Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint C. 1600-1914

London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1994. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition, first impression of this definitive and richly illustrated study of Irish watercolours. The first edition, first impression of this work. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome.An authoritative and compelling study of three centuries of Irish watercolours, with commentaries on key artists such as George Barret, Francis Danby and Jack Yeats. Co-written by pioneering Irish art historian Anne Crookshank and Anglo-Irish hereditary knight, Desmond Fitzgerald.  In the original navy cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is also very smart, with slight edge wear and a white mark to the spine tail. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Numerous Illustrators. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 936Y32

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Anne Crookshank The Watercolours of Ireland Art Illustrated The Watercolours of Ireland Numerous Illustrators

Fitzgerald, Desmond

Als to Geoffrey Robinson

London, October 27, 1950. 2 pp. Desmond Fitzgerald, editor of World Review. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Rockliff, John Baker, Maclaren, et al. .

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Book number: 05-1858

Catalogue: Ephemera

Keywords: Geoffrey Robinson

FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond.

Australian orchids.Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label.

118 plates plus letterpress descriptions.First edition of one of the earliest studies on Australian orchids, by Robert Desmond Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was an Australian deputy surveyor-general and botanical artist of Irish birth, who lived in Sydney from 1856. He is best known for his present Australian orchids, containing descriptions of Australian orchid species, some described here for the first time. Although some sources give his middle name as David or Douglas, Desmond seems to be correct. The work was issued in 12 parts from 1875 to 1894, the last completed posthumously from Fitzgerald's notes by Henry Deane.The present copy is Fitzgerald’s presentation copy for Miss Macpherson, the colourist of a large number of the plates, with an inscription by Fitzgerald addressed to her on the first leaf of the first part of volume 1: "Miss Macpherson, from Robert Fitzgerald with thanks for assistance". Also included are two letters, written by one of Miss Macpherson’s heirs to a prospective buyer.Most quires have come loose from the sewing supports some dark spots in the gutter margin caused by the cords. Some plates in parts 4 and 5 of vol. 2 are trimmed a little shorter than the others, some foxing and staining (especially vol. 1, part 1), but overall a set in good condition. The book remarkable not only because it is a presentation copy for Miss Macpherson, the colourist, but also because it is complete: "complete copies of the book are now very rare" (Stafleu & Cowan).l BM NH II, p. 580, col. 1; Ferguson V, 9623 (vol. 1 only); Great flower books, p. 94; Nissen BBI 633; Stafleu & Cowan 1799.

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Book number: ABC_46176

Keywords: [E65676C633F6] AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & PACIFIC|[E65676C633F6] AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & PACIFIC -> [DBE34E6E366B] Natural History|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [K7IC63G0P1WQ] Floras & Flowering Plants|

FITZGERALD, Desmond.

The Memoirs of Desmond Fitzgerald: 1913-1916.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Hardcover. Ex-library, neat tape repair to internal front hinge, o/wise good (no markings to text) in dj. B/W plates. Covers events before and during the Easter Rising of 1916. 201pp.

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Book number: 61536

Keywords: history historical century 20th twentieth europe united kingdom uk ireland irish german world war one 1 i politics political england britain british political science