April 12, 2024
1923 IRELAND ILLUSTRATED JOHN L. STODDARD IN EIRE COLOR PRINTS
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From 1923, this is the volume of John L. Stoddard's works pertaining to Ireland. Published by George L. Shuman & Co., Chicago and Boston. 9x6 inches, profusely illustrated. Top edge gilt. 330 pages. Very good condition. Stoddard took these photos in the 1890s, then took them on tour.Stoddard began traveling around the world in 1874 and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form as John L. Stoddard's Lectures and eventually numbered 10 volumes and five supplements (1897-1898). In 1901, Stoddard published a book on Gibraltar. The books include numerous illustrations derived from the immense catalog of photographs taken by Stoddard, and cover every subject, from art and architecture, to archaeology and natural history. The books were immensely popular in their day and many copies still survive. Later in life, Stoddard also published poetry, as well as books on religious subjects.Brought up a Protestant, Stoddard was an agnostic for more than 30 years before converting with his wife to Roman Catholicism. In 1922 he published Rebuilding a Lost Faith, a famous work of apologetics which is still in print.Stoddard was a proponent of the restoration of the Jews to Israel. In Volume 2 of his
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