12mo. In two volumes. vii, [1], 382; iv, 356pp, [4]. With two terminal advertisement leaves. Uncut in original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt. Some rubbing, spines sunned, a trifle marked. Armorial bookplates of Ferdinand M. McVeagh to both FEPs, ink ownership inscriptions of 'Michael Hurst / October 1969 to same', pencil annotations throughout, occasional light spots of dust-soiling.

The first edition in English of French magistrate Gustave de Beaumont's (1802-1866) Irlande sociale, politique et religieuse. Beaumont gathered the material for this detailed sociological treatise during two journeys to the nation - the first undertaken in 1835 in the company of historian and politician Alexis de Tocqueville, the second with his spouse in 1837.