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- 144 p. Illus.
- Irish literature in transition ; Volume 1 .
Or, What the beginner should know about typefounding, letter-design and type faces; with a synopsis of the best faces now available shown family by family for the convenience of users of print.
"William Dunkin's exuberant comic poem, The Parson's Revels, offers a useful starting point for this collection because it gives voice to something of the complexity of eighteenthcentury culture in Ireland. The poem's setting is a Christmas-time feast held in the mid- 1740s at Beauchamp Hall, near Athy, Co. Kildare"--