The Midnight Court a Rhythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of Bryan Merryman

Merryman, Bryan; O'Connor, Frank

$20.00

Publisher: Maurice Fridberg
Place Published: London & Dublin
Edition: 1st thus
Date Published: 1945
Illustrator: Hugh Stevenson text illus.
Size: 8vo

New translation of Bryan Merryman’s masterpiece, a work considered one of the greatest minor Irish classics of the middle eighteenth century, rendered into English by Frank O’Connor; Merryman lived as a mathematics teacher, and was almost entirely unappreciated as a writer; no later work than The Midnight Court is known to exist from Merryman; b&w text decorations by Hugh Stevenson; former owner’s initials and date to fep, mild toning/foxing, o.w. VG throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. G-VG.

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