The Architecture of Ireland From the Earliest Times to 1880. Dublin: Eason & Son, 1982. First Edition. Pp, 358. A fine bright copy in pictorial dust jacket.

Illustrated with 182 photographs & 98 plans and drawings.

Maurice Craig was an Irish architectural historian & the author of several books on the architectural heritage of Ireland. During the late 1950s, Craig defended the Georgian architectural legacy of the capital against development plans which would have destroyed the memory of “colonial Dublin” some 40 years after independence.