Picturesque Dublin. Old and New. With Ninety-One Illustrations by Rose Barton & Reproductions of Old Engravings. London: Hutchinson, 1898. First Edition. Pp xxii, 429. Tall 8vo. Green buckram boards, title in gilt to spine. Covers lightly dust soiled, ex library stamp to endpaper, contents bright & clean.

Tipperary born Rose Barton, began a long relationship with the Royal Water Colour Society of Ireland in 1872 when she first exhibited with them, and later became a committee member. She a cousin of the artist and writer Edith Somerville and a lifelong friend of the artist Mildred Anne Butler.