Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 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 illsutrated 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.”