A Picturesque Tour Through Ireland. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Views of the most Interesting Scenery. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1824. First Edition. Oblong folio. Original paper boards, with title label to centre of upper cover; rebacked, new endpapers. Covers lightly scuffed. Occasional light spotting to margins, but contents pages generally in fine bright condition throughout.

A renowned & exceedingly rare Irish coloured plate book, depicting Irish landscapes and antiquities, illustrated with twenty-five hand-coloured aquatint plates each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive letter-press text.

List of plates: Irish Cottages — Stone cross at Kilcullen — Gold mines, Wicklow — Mountains of Lugnaquilla — Lough Erne, and Isle of Devenish — Part of the Abbey of Monaincha — Principal lake at Killarney — Abbey of Aghaboe — Trim Castle, East Meath — Giants Causeway — Balrichan Castle — Roche Castle — Entrance of the Lough of Belfast — Belfast — View on the River Shannon — Mountains of Morne — Down Patrick — Lough Neagh — Carlingford Castle — Water Fall near Bantry — Salmon Leap at Leixlip — Dunamase Castle — Bray Head — View on the Blackwater River — Limerick.

Written and illustrated by Dennis Sullivan, an artist about whom little is known today, but this work stands as his major legacy . It was published in London by Thomas M’Lean, a prominent print seller and publisher, known for his high-quality publications.