The book's full title is: "Dedicated to Sligo; Thirty-four Essays on Sligo's Past" A wide range of authors describe, analyse, interpret and re-interpret parts of the complex understudied, and at time misunderstood, archive of eight thousand years of Co. Sligo's past. Drawing new and exciting knowledge about what Sligo looked like at times in the remote past, the events which changed lifestyles and the products of humble and status craftsmen they give us a greater understanding of our county and its place in Ireland's past and present and they inform us of some inspired intellectual and artistic giants of more recent centuries. The illustrations draw us into the Sligo landscape, so richly endowed with the natural beauty, archaeology and history the surrounds us all the days of our lives. The condition is good. All pages, and the accompanying pictures, are present, legible, fair and fine. There is shelf wear throughout the book, in particular on the covers where there is peeling at eve