Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland
Thomas Campbell Foster
1846
Chapman and Hall
First Edition
pp.xxx + p.771
8vo
Description:
Very rare and important series of reports as the first signs of the potato crop was failing leading to Ireland's Great Famine.
Thomas Campbell Foster, working as the Times Newspaper's Special Commissioner, travelled across Ireland to examine the systemic causes of Irish destitution, focusing his narrative on the evils of landlord absenteeism and the lack of security of peasant farmers. The text offers invaluable eyewitness data on the cusp of the Famine but it is commented Foster's analysis is heavily coloured by a paternalistic English bias. pp.xxx + p.771. 8vo. With pull out map of Ireland.
Condition:
Good Condition. Olive cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebacked with new endpapers. Half title is absent. Map is tipped in opposite p.1. Binding is firm and pages are moderately tanned and foxed. Moderate wear to boards with bumping to edges. spine repaired.
Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland
Thomas Campbell Foster
1846
Chapman and Hall
First Edition
pp.xxx + p.771
8vo
Description:
Very rare and important series of reports as the first signs of the potato crop was failing leading to Ireland's Great Famine.
Thomas Campbell Foster, working as the Times Newspaper's Special Commissioner, travelled across Ireland to examine the systemic causes of Irish destitution, focusing his narrative on the evils of landlord absenteeism and the lack of security of peasant farmers. The text offers invaluable eyewitness data on the cusp of the Famine but it is commented Foster's analysis is heavily coloured by a paternalistic English bias. pp.xxx + p.771. 8vo. With pull out map of Ireland.
Condition:
Good Condition. Olive cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book has been rebacked with new endpapers. Half title is absent. Map is tipped in opposite p.1. Binding is firm and pages are moderately tanned and foxed. Moderate wear to boards with bumping to edges. spine repaired.
