Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Nathaniel Hone the Younger, John Duncan and James Arthur O'Connor. Irish charms, cures, banshees and fairy doctors, taken down in the west of Ireland by Oscar Wilde's mother, who wrote for the nationalist press as Speranza and collected in Irish among people who still used these things. This edition is bound with sixty plates of paintings by Robert Dobson, Richard Wane, Erskine Nicol and George Morland, dating from 1789 to 1913.