Gold-Tooled Bookbindings. Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century. Irish Georgian Society, 1987.  Folio, fine in dust jacket.

A seminal work in the history of Irish bookbinding, published by the Irish Georgian Society through the generosity of J. Paul Getty Jr. Profusely illustrated with plates, some in colour . The book includes a bibliography and an index.

Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century represents a landmark contribution to the study of Irish bookbinding and the decorative arts in eighteenth-century Ireland. The work is the result of extensive scholarship by Joseph McDonnell and Patrick Healy, who undertook a systematic examination of the fine bindings produced for Ireland’s most prestigious academic institution during its golden age.