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Irish Country Houses by Mark Bence-Jones

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A Guide to Irish Country Houses
by
Mark Bence-Jones
Revised Edition
This is the edition of 1988 a more substantial edition with supplement of 130 houses added and illustrated. It also contains an index of names so you can match the families associated with the houses. It’s definitely the best edition to have.
Published by Constable 1988.
30 x 21cm
Hardback blue cloth with dust jacket.
Very good condition
This book is an alphabetical dictionary of nearly 2,000 Irish country houses, with individual entries including an architectural description and commentary, a brief history of the property and its devolution, many anecdotes and notes of interest concerning the interior, gardens, park etc. Extensive text and illustrations.
This book is becoming quite rare.
Price £125.00

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3099

Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

Author, dean of St.Patricks, Dublin, wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
Artist: George Vertue, after Charles Jervas

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

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3058

Martin Archer Shee 1769-1850

The Irish-born Shee was primarily a portrait painter. He moved to London in 1788 where, after working as an engraver, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1790. He was elected a full academician in 1805 An energetic reformer, Shee published Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter (1800) which called for national support for the arts.

Artist: Sir Martin Archer Shee

Size 19 x 13 cms

Price £18.00

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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Ridley
Date:
Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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461

George Olivier, Count of Wallis 1673-1743

Field marshal of Irish descent in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and last regent of the Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia. Born into an Irish family, he distinguished himself in Sicily by his capture of Messina.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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889

Godard van Reede, 1st Earl of Athlone 1646-1723

Godard van Reede, 1st Earl of Athlone, Baron van Reede, Lord of Ginkel, born in the Netherlands as Baron Godard van Reede, was a Dutch general who rose to prominence during the Williamite War in Ireland.
Artist: Bernigeroth
Date:
Size 9.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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913

Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg 1615-1690

Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, 1st Count of Mertola, KG PC was a Marshal of France and a General in the English and Portuguese Army. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Laurence Sterne was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Reynolds
Date:
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

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1389

Laurence Sterne 1713-1768

Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics.
Artist: Vertielst
Date:
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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