History of the Town and County of Wexford. Old and New Ross. Compiled Principally from the State Papers, The Public Records, and Mss. Of the Late Herbert F. Hore, of Pole Hore, in that County. London: Elliot Stock, 1900. Pp 409. Rebound in cloth boards, title in gilt to spine, top edge in gilt, retaining portion of original cloth to upper cover. A nice bright copy.

Profusely illustrated with, folded maps, plans, photographs, etc.

The first part of Hore’s six volume series published between 1900 and 1911, largely on the manuscripts and research of his father Herbert Francis Hore.

The Hore family, of which he was a member, were relatively large landowners and first arrived in County Wexford in the early stages of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland and from that time onwards they played a prominent role in the history of the county.