Carr, Ann Powers. By Hammer and Hand: Irish Decorative Arts of the Eighteenth Century. Birmingham Museum of Art: 1980. The catalog to a loan exhibition featuring silver, furniture, glass, textiles and other antiques. An essay begins the catalog, followed by brief descriptions of the 55 items in the exhibition, as well as 30 black & white illustrations. Softcover. 7"x10", 25 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. Light wear, minor soil.

Inventory #: 34352 Price: $ 40.00

Harbison, Peter, Homan Potterton & Jeanne Sheehy. Irish Art and Architecture, from prehistory to the present. London Thames and Hudson: 1978. This sweeping and well-illustrated study is divided into three sections: prehistory to 1600, the 17th & 18th centuries, and the 19th & 20th centuries. Hardcover. 8.5"x11", 272 pages, 40 color and 276 black & white illustrations, dust jacket. Light wear.

Inventory #: 34347 Price: $ 25.00

[Harding Collection] Old Irish Glass. The Walter Harding Collection. Including old English & other pieces. Liverpool privately published: 1925. An infamous collection within the small world of Irish glass collectors -though more through guilt by association than actual defect. Harding had been one of the best customers of Elizabeth Graydon Stannus, collector, glass factory owner, author of a well-known book on antique Irish glass, and antiques dealer. Unfortunately, Stannus has also been called "the greatest villain in the manipulation of the history of Irish Glass" (McConnell, Magazine Antiques, Sept.2004). In a talk in 1924 she seems to have obliquely admitted that she had produced some fake Irish glass using genuine old molds, and she was also thought to have "improved" some of her genuine old pieces with extra engraving and cutting. As if that was not enough to endear her to the hearts of local collectors, she also admitted to melting down pieces of antique Irish colored glass and using the metal to produce new pieces that would have the correct antique color. Such stories inevitably have endings, and this one came symbolically in 1936 when the Harding Collection was auctioned by Sotheby's for about 1/12th of what he had paid for it. The irony of that is that the collection is not known to have had an over-abundance of fakes, although in the auction, and in this earlier, private catalog, some of the date attributions are improbably early. Still, the collection was large and varied, and is presented elegantly, with most of the glass photographed against a black background. And if you are looking for a famous collection of Irish glass (for better or worse), this is it. Hardcover. 6.5"x10", 108 pages, many b/w plates. Covers rather soiled, a little soil to the endpapers. Inscribed by Harding to HJC Grierson, the noted Scottish literary scholar and critic who wrote books about Tennyson, Donne, Blake, Scott, Byron and Swinburne and edited the Oxford Book of 17th Century Verse.

Inventory #: 8774 Price: $ 275.00

[Ireland] The Irish Sale, including Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Glass, Coins, Paintings and Watercolors. London Sotheby's: June 2, 1995. Sale LN5330. The first half of the auction consists of a very fine selection of Irish furniture, silver, glass, ceramics & other decorations, the second half is fine art. Softcover. 8"x10.5", 183 pages, 366 lots, color illustrations. Light wear, corner thumbed.

Inventory #: 32920 Price: $ 40.00

[Newton Park House] Newtown Park House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. Property of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. McGuire. London Christie's: September 20, 1976. The auction of this fine estate. Edward McGuire bought it in 1946 to house his growing collection of 17th and 18th century European paintings, English and Irish furniture, and Chinese and Continental porcelains. The catalog has a short Introduction by the Knight of Glin. Softcover. 7"x9.5", 148 pages plus 1 color and 78 b/w plates 882 lots light cover soil.

Inventory #: 30724 Price: $ 40.00

Peill, James & The Knight of Glin. Irish Furniture. New Haven Yale University Press: 2007. "This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume provides a detailed survey-encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for the great houses-from earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. The first part of the book presents a chronological history, illustrated with superb examples of Irish furniture and interior carving. In a lively text, the Knight of Glin and James Peill consider a broad range of topics, including a discussion of the influence of Irish craftsmen in the colonies of America. The second part of the book is a fascinating pictorial catalogue of different types of surviving furniture, including chairs, stools, baroque sideboards, elegant tea and games tables, bookcases, and mirrors. The book also features an index of Irish furniture-makers and craftsmen of the eighteenth century, compiled from Dublin newspaper advertisements and other contemporary sources. Hardcover. 10"x12", 352 pages, 100 b/w and 400 color illustrations, dj. New.

Inventory #: 90238 Price: $ 125.00

Teahan, John. Irish Silver. A Guide to the Exhibition. Dublin National Museum of Ireland: 1979. A nice exhibition catalog, organized by type of silver. The specimens were drawn form the Museum's collection, are illustrate the development of Irish silver from 1500 to 1850. Some marks are included. Softcover. 7"x9.5", 77 pages, b/w illustrations. Minor wear.

Inventory #: 34453 Price: $ 50.00

Warren, Phelps. Irish Glass. The Age of Exuberance. New York Charles Scribner's Sons: 1970. The first American edition of this standard, well-illustrated study of Irish glass made between 1780 and 1830. Hardcover. 6.5"x10", 155 pages plus 4 color and 103 b/w plates, dj. Light wear, jacket with a few small dings, gift inscription on the endpaper partially covered by a bookplate.

Inventory #: 33671 Price: $ 40.00