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MacFALL (Haldane).
The Splendid Wayfaring.
Simpkin,
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
1913. FIRST EDITION, with
illustrations by Lovat Fraser, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gordon Craig and
the author, pages xiii, 202, 4to, original mauve cloth, gilt, top
edges gilt: the inside hinges cracked but the binding sound and
strong, though lightly faded: a very good copy. (6)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
487
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WHIG CLUB: -.
Observations on the vindication of the
Whig Club. To which are subjoined, the speech of the Lord
Chancellor, as it appeared in the newspapers, the vindication of
the Whig Club, and a letter signed Truth, which appeared in
Faulkner’s Journal.
Dublin: P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street,
1790
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pp (4), 66, (1, advert leaf), 8vo, recent
wrapper: very good.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DUNDAS (Henry), first Viscount
Melville.
Substance of the speech of … in the House of
Commons, Thursday, Feb. 7, 1799, on the subject of the
Legislative Union with Ireland.
Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw,
1799. FIRST IRISH EDITION, 68-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Strongly supporting Union: reprinted a number of times into the
following century.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (2)
IRELAND.
A report of the debate
of the Irish bar, on Sunday, the 9th of December, 1798, on the
subject of an union of the legislatures of Great Britain and
Ireland. To which is added, the resolutions and protest.
Dublin:
Printed for J. Moore,
1799. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 66, 75 - 90,
complete thus, in spite of pagination jump, with the half-title, 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
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FITZWILLIAM (Wm. Wentworth), Earl Fitzwilliam.
A
letter from a venerated gentleman who recently retired from this
country, to the Earl of Carlisle: explaining the causes of that
event.
Dublin, printed: London, reprinted; and sold by G. G. and J.
Robinson … and J. Debrett.
1795. Pages 31, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Fitzwilliam (1748-1833) was briefly and unhappily Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland (1794-95).
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[ROBINSON (Christopher) ].
Remarks on a pamphlet
intitled, Considerations on the late bill for paying the national
debt, &c. Number II.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1754. FIRST
EDITION, 16-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to
nice copy.
Four numbers were issued: they were later included in ‘The patriot
miscellany’.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
488
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[WHITE (Joseph Blanco) ].
Second Travels of an Irish
Gentleman in search of a religion. With notes and illustrations,
NOT by the Editor of “Captain Rock’s Memoirs. “
Dublin:
Richard Milliken …,
1833
FIRST EDITION, pages xvii, 249: (6), 245 and errata slip, with
the half-titles, 2 vols, 12mo, attractively bound in near
contemporary half polished calf, gilt, fully gilt spines, with double
labels, gilt, silk markers: with some very slight wear at the
headbands, but still an attractive, pleasantly bound copy.
José María Blanco y Crespo (1775-1841), aka Joseph Blanco White, a
poet who composed in both Spanish and English, a literary critic,
novelist, essayist, journalist and religious controversialist who challenged
the power of the Catholic Church and the political and intellectual
establishments of his time. In his political writing he was an early
advocate of Spanish American independence. In his religious writing he
wrote as a rationalist critic of orthodox theology and influenced both
Anglican and Unitarian thought. He was educated for the Roman
Catholic priesthood, but after his ordination in 1800, religious doubts led
him to escape from Spain to England (1810). There he entered the
Anglican Church, having studied theology at Oxford and made the
friendship of Arnold, Newman and Whately. He became tutor in
Whately’s family when he was made archbishop of Dublin in 1831.
While in this position he embraced Unitarian views, and found asylum
amongst the Unitarians of Liverpool. He is best remembered for his
sonnet “Night and Death”, which was dedicated to Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[BULWER-LYTTON (Edward R.),
first Earl of Lytton.
Clytemnestra, The Earls Return, The Artist,
and other poems. By Owen Meredith.
Chapman and Hall,
1855.
GUIZOT (François P. G.).
The History of Civilization, from the
fall of the Roman Empire to the French Revolution. Translated
by William Hazlitt.
D. Bogue,
1851-53-46. Editions not stated,
with engraved frontispieces, pp xxx, 490: xi, 512: xi, 498, without
half-titles, 3 vols, small 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered
sides, gilt spines, double labels, gilt: light foxing of titles and
spines evenly faded, otherwise attractive and very good. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
489
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WHITTAKER (Kenneth).
The Limerick Book of Kenneth
Whittaker.
Manchester: The Mardale Press,
1958
FIRST EDITION, (20) -pages, 16mo, original printed wraps: a
very good to nice copy.
Limited edition of 150 copies hand-set in Times New Roman, printed on
Spicer’s St George paper and decorated with typographic ornaments in
red. Signed by Whittaker on the title-page and ‘Cover printed by Eric
(Spider) Webb’ in colophon crossed out, presumably in the same hand.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOOD (Thomas).
Hood’s Own:
or Laughter from Year to Year. Being former runnings of his
comic vein, with an infusion of new blood for general circulation.
A. H. Baily,
1839. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with a
portrait and many text woodcuts, pages viii, 568, 8vo, some
foxing in places, but a very good copy in recent boards, with label.
Gilmour 9. A medley of prose, verse and pictures from the `Comic
Annuals’, with some new material added, including the important
`Literary Reminiscences’.
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COLMAN (George), the younger.
Broad Grins, My
Nightgown & Slippers, and other humorous works, prose and
popetical. Now first collected. With life and anecdotes of the
author. Edited by George B. Buckstone.
John Camden Hotten
(1871). FIRST EDITION THUS, with frontispiece, pages vii,
492, (28, illustrated adverts for new books for 1872), 8vo, original
cloth: little dull but binding strong: a good, clean copy.
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GANTHONY (Robert).
Practical Ventriloquism and the
sister arts. A revelation in vocal phonetics … by an entirely novel
system …
L. Upcott Gill …,
1903. With portrait and 24
illustrations, pp xii, 155 and 19, (5, adverts), 8vo, original cloth,
gilt: the binding worn and stained, the inside joints cracked, but
internally clean and fresh.
Apparently, an unchanged reprint of the original edition of 1893.
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€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
490
.
WICKLOW PEERAGE CASE: - Howard (Charles
Francis Arnold), Earl of Wicklow.
Minutes of Evidence taken
before the Committee for Privileges on the Earl of Wicklow’s
claim to vote for representative peers in Ireland.
Ordered to be
printed 22nd June (E.),
1869
529-pages with tipped in printed leaf of index (witnesses), folio,
contemporary limp red calf, gilt, upper cover lettered in gilt
including the name of the Dublin solicitors Thomas Tighe
Mecredy & Sons: with occasional blue pencil marks and notes
presumbly by/for the solicitors Mecredy: a very good copy of
what is, apparently, a soliciitor’s working copy.
Represented in COPAC and NSTC only by the National Library of
Scotland copy.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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