Driftwood from Scandinavia. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1884. First Edition. Pp 297. Ex library copy, with stamps. Publisher’s buff cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover. Covers scuffed, contents in good condition.

“Driftwood from Scandinavia” recounts Lady Wilde’s old friendships with Swedes and her voyages to Sweden with her husband Sir William in 1858. Includes much of value on Scandinavian sociology and German romanticism’ (‘Dictionary of Irish Biography’).

The appendix consists of an essay by Sir William Wilde: ‘On the Scandinavian Antiquities lately discovered at Islandbridge, near Dublin’.