McDONNELL (Joseph) & HEALY (Patrick). Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century.1987

Irish Georgian Society. First Edition, large 4to, with the Adams bookplate and several reviews tipped-in, a couple of minor additions to errata slip and index in Adams' hand, coloured frontis., 105 plates (8 coloured) illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. This is the first book in over thirty years on the subject of Irish bookbinding and forms an important contribution both to the history of the book trade, and the art and cultural history of Ireland in the eighteenth century. From the library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr.