Praeger, Robert Lloyd. A Populous Solitude. [Signed]. First Edition. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1941. 18.5 x 12 cm. (8), 271 pages. Complete with nine Illustrations (incl. frontispiece). Original black cloth with title on spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end end papers age darkened. Inscribed by the author on front free end paper, dated 1941. Internally bright and clean.

Robert Lloyd Praeger (25 August 1865 – 5 May 1953) was an Irish naturalist, writer and librarian.
Of a Unitarian background, he was born in Holywood, County Down, and grew up in that town where he was educated, first in the school of the Reverend McAlister and then at nearby Sullivan Upper School.
He worked in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin from 1893 to 1923. He co-founded and edited the Irish Naturalist, and wrote papers on the flora and other aspect of the natural history of Ireland. He organized the Lambay Survey in 1905/06 and, from 1909 to 1915, the wider Clare Island Survey. He was an engineer by qualification, a librarian by profession and a naturalist by inclination.
He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1921. He became the first President of both An Taisce and the Irish Mountaineering Club in 1948, and served as President of the Royal Irish Academy for 1931-34. He is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.

• Keywords: Biography & Literary Criticism · Ireland · Irish Literature · Literature · Modern Literature · Natural Sciences · Science & Nature
• Signed/inscribed
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 102902AB

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