Dublin Decorative Plasterwork: Of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries hardback by C.P. Curran (1967 first edition) art architecture Irish interest history

London: Alec Tiranti, 1967. First Edition. Pap, 124. Interspersed with plates & 4 tipped-in colour illustrations; followed by 173 black and white depictions of important and historical Dublin plasterwork; map endpapers. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket.

This authoritative volume covers the city’s Rococo plasterwork: “This first authoritative and richly illustrated publication , covering the elegance of Rococo plasterwork in Dublin, must remain unique. C. P. Curran has lived a lifetime with this subject. Added to the fascination of his detailed analysis, his memory recreates much of an art, falling rapidly to beetle and bulldozer.”

In good used condition, some tears to the outer dust jacket as pictured. Interior pages are intact. Condition detailed in photographs.

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