Ireland Under the Tudors. With a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Three Volumes. London: Longmans, 1885; 1885, 1890. First Edition Set. Publisher’s brown cloth boards, title in gilt to spines. Boards damp stained along margins, contents pages in fine bright condition.

Richard Bagwell’s (1840-1918), a noted Anglo-Irish historian monumental three-volume history that remains a foundational resource for scholars of 16th-century Ireland.

Published between 1885 and 1890, the work is renowned for its exhaustive research, drawing almost exclusively on primary sources like state papers and contemporary annals to deliver a scrupulously detailed account of the period.