Search Results: realities of irish life by w steuart trench

Mcgibbon & Kee, 1966. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1868, hardcover with quarter leather boards, octavo, 407pp., illustrated with b&w lithographs, missing large folding map. Book VG with spine leather showing sun and rubbing that does not affect the beauty of gilt decorations and titles, mild wear to spine ends, binding tight, text has some foxing and toning throughout. No DJ, but in archival mylar wrap.

(London): McGibbon & Kee, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fitzroy edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with light soiling on the rear panel, else fine.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Early edition (first published in 1868). Number 5 in the publisher's Handy-Volume Series. 297 pp. plus advertising. The boards and spine are darkened. Worn at the spine ends and corners. The first two leaves are creased. The rear hinge is cracked with mesh holding. Unmarked and in an otherwise sound binding.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. [c1870]. Hardcover. Ex-library, Public Library, Otago, New Zealand. Rules of the "Waiwera Library" pasted to front endpaper. Rebound late 19th century in half calf library binding. Boards very rubbed, some loss of cloth along edges of boards. 1/4" chips to leather at tips of corners of boards. Spine rubbed and faded. Some old dampstains and wrinkles to fore margins of leaves throughout. Dampstains and staining to rear endpaper. ; Stated "New Edition" on title page. viii, 416 pages. Half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 172 x 107mm. Pages (403)-416 of this edition have "Extracts from Opinions of the Press", dating from December 1868 through to March 1869. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Realities of Irish Life.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. First published in 1868, and with five reprintings (of which this reissue is the third) within twelve months of publication, this work recounts Trench's experience as a land agent in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. In a series of essays, Trench describes his own life and that of his tenants.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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London: Longmans Green. Very Good. 1869. Hardcover. 1869 second edition, ix + 411pp, illustrated with engravings by the author's son, no map in this copy [as often], bound I half brown leatther/brown buckran boards, gilt lining and lettering to spine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London. Longmans, Green & Co. 1870, 1870. Hardcover. 12mo, 19cm, 5th edition, viii,416p., appendices, original green cloth, gilt spine titles and gilt vignette illustration on the upper cover, some slight wear at the edges but a new fine copy (s9) Trench's experience of the land management in Ireland ranged from the period immediately before the famine of the 1840s until Gladstone's first Land Act (1870). In 1868 he published Realities of Irish Life, a book which was an immediate success and which passed through five editions in a year. The Edinburgh Review praised its forcible and impressive description of the Irish peasantry, and likened its popular force, humour, and pathos to that in the early works of Charles Dickens. (ODNB).

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1869. 3rd Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rear Room Left Lower Blue Marbled boards with royal blue leather Gilt title on spine [5]+vi-xiv+411p,illus,dep,dentelles Pages very good Spotting on margins and sometimes face of illustrations All thirty illustrations present Fold Out map present in rear with no tears No unfolded Owners book-plate on fep

London: Longmans, Gree, And Co, 1868. First Edition. Original Green Gilt Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The Author After holding some subordinate positions he was appointed agent to the Shirley estate in county Monaghan in April 1843. This post he resigned in April 1845 for reasons which are stated in his ‘Realities of Irish Life.’ In December 1849 Trench was appointed agent to the extensive estates of the Marquis of Lansdowne in Kerry, and, in addition to these, he took charge of the property of the Marquis of Bath in Monaghan in 1851, and that of Lord Digby in the King's County in 1856. These appointments he held down to his death.Illustrated by J. Townsend the authors son. Small tear to top of spine some blemishes to covers, corners are slightly bumped, Wear to spine. One fold out map with small tears, Small sporadic foxing.The book had gone into five edtions in the first twelve months of publication Size: Octavo (standard book size). Category: History; 19th century; .

London, England: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. J. Townsend Trench. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.6 in.,, pp. xiv, 407. Illustrated with drawings in black and white, and one color plate, by the author's son, J. Townsend Trench. Color fold-out map of Ireland. Green half calf with gilt rule over marbled boards. Gilt title, and five raised bands to spine. Publisher's gilt top-edge. Light rubbing to extremities. Corners peeping. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing to frontispiece and fold-out map. Light age-toning to pages. Unmarked interior. Spine and hinges tight. The author, on the title page, is introduced as the "Land Agent in Ireland to Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis of Bath, and Lord Digby." W. Steuart Trench was born in November 1808, near Ballybrittas, Co Laois (then Queen's County), the youngest son of Thomas Trench, Church of Ireland Dean of Kildare, and Mary Weldon, whose father Robert was a landowner and MP for Athy. After attending the Royal School, Armagh, he went to Trinity… Read More

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1869. Trench (1808-1872) served as a Land Agent for several Irish landlords, experiencing the Great Famine from an opposite perspective than that of the peasantry; he writes vividly but today would be seen at the least as patronizing. One of his conclusions is that murder in Ireland is not based upon passion but is the result of nationalist feelings of revenge; perhaps the author colored his data a bit due to various assassination attempts on his own life. It was was a popular book in its time, going to several editions. An important source that is now uncommon to scarce. This is a Very Good copy of the Second Edition in an attractive Fine Binding. Green leather spine and tips over marbled boards. Gilt ruling on the spine; red leather label with lettering in gilt. Clean text; 411 pages. Still bright and clear; some spotting at the endpapers, with old flood marks in the first few pages in the front. The front hinge has cracked but the volume is holding nicely. Small… Read More