Mourne Country. Landscape and Life in South Down. With Drawings by the Author. Dundalk: Tempest, 1951. First Edition. Pp 226. Green cloth boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn & chipped, contents pages in nice bright condition.

Illustrated with seventeen plates, & ninety-three text drawings.

Welsh born Estyn Evans became a lecturer in Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast, in 1928. He was particularly interested in the Irish Neolithic period. His research encompassed folklore, myth, legend and the oral tradition, especially in north Antrim and Donegal.