A View of the Present State of Ireland. London: Eric Partridge, 1934. First Edition Thus. Pp 330. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers. Rebound in blue cloth boards, title in gilt to spine. A very good copy.

Illustrated with two fold-out ink drawings from Derrick’s Image of Ireland (1581) and one fold-out map of Ireland.

Edited principally from the MS Rawlinson in the Bodleian Library and MS 188.211 in Caius College by W.L. Renwick.

Edmund Spenser’s history constitutes an eye-witness account of the state of late 16th century Ireland in the form of a dialogue between Eudox and Iren.