Antient Irish pavement tiles, exhibiting thirty-two patterns : illustrated by forty engravings, after the originals, existing in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Howth, Mellifont, and Newtown Abbeys

by: Oldham, Thomas, 1816-1878 author

Publication date: 1842

Topics: Pavements, Tile, Tiles, Church decoration and ornament, Pavements, Tile -- Ireland, Tiles -- Ireland, Church decoration and ornament -- Ireland, Ireland

Publisher: Dublin : John Robertson, 3, Grafton-Street ; London : Longman and Co. ; Oxford : J.H. Parker ; Edinburgh : J. Johnstone

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Date of publication from English Catalogue of Books

25 (i.e. 27) numbered lithograph plates, plus engraved frontispiece

"W. Porteous, printer, Wicklow-Street"--front cover

Errata slip inserted at p. 8

With: Patterns of inlaid tiles from churches in the diocese of Oxford (SPECIAL 91-B15452)

Includes bibliographical references

8 pages, 25, that is, 28 unnumbered leaves of plates : 28 cm

Date of publication from English catalogue of books

Title vignette

The plates are numbered 1 to 25, two plates, no. 10 and 12, bear identical numbering, plus engraved frontispiece