Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Poetic Obituaries: [Maurice] Craig wrote a number of books,

among them The Volunteer Earl (1948) a biography of James Caulfield, 1st Earl of Charlemont, who in the 18th century built The Casino, a fine, neo-Classical structure on his estate at Marino, Dublin, which Craig described as "small and perfect and great fun, even if it is not much use."

Craig's Irish Bookbinding 1600-1800 came out in 1954. It was followed by, among others, Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size (1976) which was widely acclaimed (though it was sometimes mischievously renamed "Country Houses for the Middle-Class"); and The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880 (1982).

from The Telegraph: Maurice Craig

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