SAYINGS, PROVERBS, AND HUMOUR OF ULSTER.

Octavo (approx. 5 1/4" wide by 8 1/2" tall) 3/4 green leather over green boards. Gilt rules. Gilt titles on spine, also with gilt designs of shamrocks and harps. Raised bands on spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Spine leather and top edges have sunned to brown. 66 pages total. The first part "Sayings." was a lecture delivered in part to the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society in December 1903. Pages 59-66 are devoted to "Ulsterisms" -- a paper contributed to "The Northern Whig" Belfast, May 8, 1901. With the bookplates of two former owners on front endpapers. The earliest is from The (Second) Earl of Dudley, William Humble Ward, who was the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1902-1905. This copy inscribed by the author to the Earl of Dudley on the title page. Northern Ireland, Language. 070400C

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Publisher: Printed by William Strain & Sons

Year: 1904

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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