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Todd, Edmund Burke, p. 273. “A book which went some way to display
Campbell’s patriot politics. ”(ODNB). He is a more lively and interesting
writer than the dry title of this present book indicates. There are
substantial sections that take the form of epistolary exchanges (one
includes a letter from Edmund Burke) and Campbell does not shy away
from controversy. It is also worth noting that Campbell spent time in
Johnson’s circle during visits to London. Mrs. Thrale called him “a fine
showy talking man, ” and Boswell referred to Campbell as “so good
humoured... and so thankful for any civilities... that he was quite like a
pet sheep. ”
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
637
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CARLETON (William).
Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish
Agent; or, chronicles of the Castle Cumber property. In three
volumes.
Dublin: Published by James Duffy …,
1845
FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 300: (4), 318, (2, blank): (4), 336,
with the half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, original red cloth, uncut, the
bindings, sometimes signed G. Bellew, are here unsigned: with
very slight wear to the outer joints of two volumes (all the inner
hinges are intact and unbroken), otherwise a very good copy with
the original bindings in quite fresh state, with the armorial book-
plate of Robert S. Palmer in each volume.
Sadleir 521. Wolff 1126. One of the best of his novels, based on a
detailed study of the character and career of an Irish land agent of the
worst type. “A social problem novel written against absentee Protestant
landlords. “ - Loeber C81. The first edition is very uncommon.
(3)
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
638
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CARLETON (William).
Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish
Agent; or, chronicles of the Castle Cumber property. In three
volumes.
Dublin: Published by James Duffy …,
1845
FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 300: (4), 318, (2, blank): (4), 336,
with half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, original red cloth, uncut: the spines
skilfully repaired retaining the original endpapers and flyleaves,
in a custom made cloth and marbled boards slip-case: a very
good copy, with each board embossed “G. Bellew - Binder -
Dublin”.
Sadleir 521. Wolff 1126. One of the best of his novels, based on a
detailed study of the character and career of an Irish land agent of the
worst type. “A social problem novel written against absentee Protestant
landlords. “ - Loeber C81. The first edition is decidedly uncommon.
(3)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
639
.
CARLETON (Wm.).
The Black Prophet: a tale of Irish
famine.
Belfast: Simms and M’Intyre, (The Parlour Library No. 1),
1847
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 320, 12mo, with some light
browning and signs of use, but a very good copy in recent quarter
calf.
His last and best novel, impressive for its stark description of the Great
Famine.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[WHYTE-MELVILLE (George)].
Tilbury Nogo; or, passages in the life of an unsuccessful man. By
the author of “Digby Grand”.
Chapman and Hall,
1854. FIRST
EDITION, pages iv, 310: (2), 348, 2 vols, large 12mo,
contemporary half calf, with double lettering-pieces, gilt: a very
good to nice copy.
His second novel, a fictional autobiography mainly concerning horses
and women. Notably scarce in its first edition: Wolff had only the
seventh edition.
(2)
LEVER (Charles).
Sir Brook Fossbrooke. In three volumes.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons,
1866. (6)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
640
.
CARMICHAEL (A. C.), Mrs.
Domestic manners and
social condition of the white, coloured, and negro population of
the West Indies.
Whittaker, Treacher, and Co.,
1833
FIRST EDITION, pp viii, (3) - 336, (2, blank): iv, (3) - 338,
complete thus, with the half-title to the first volume (none issed to
the second) and the blank leaf in volume one, 2 vols, 8vo, original
cloth-backed boards, with printed paper spine labels, uncut: the
labels a little chipped at the corners but otherwise a very good to
nice copy with the attractive engraved label on pink paper of
Grant & Bolton, Dublin, on the upper board of volume one.
“The writer was the wife of a planter and resided in St Vincent and
Trinidad for five and a half years commencing in 1821.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SHIRREFF (Patrick).
A tour
through North America... with a comprehensive view of the
Canadas and United States. As adapted for agricultural
emigration.
Edinburgh,
1835. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), iv, v,
322; (2), 327 - 473, apparently complete thus and with 8-pages of
Curry’s advertisements on yellow paper tipped in at front, 8vo,
original cloth-backed boards, uncut, with printed paper spine
label: a very good copy. (3)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
641
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CARNE (John).
Letters from the East.
Henry Colburn,
1826
FIRST EDITION, with attractive coloured frontispiece, pages
xxiii, (1), 593, (1), 8vo, finely bound in recent quarter calf, gilt,
with contrasting label, gilt: a very good to nice copy.
With the advert. leaf stating “A portion of the following work has
already appeared in the New Monthly Magazine. The Letters from
Greece are now first printed. “
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
642
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CARPENTER (Andrew),
ed.
Irish Writings from the Age
of Swift.
Dublin: The Cademus Press,
1972-73-74-76-77-78-79
ALL PUBLISHED, 10 vols, 8vo, uniform original quarter calf: in
nice, fresh state.
Limited editions of 200 numbered copies (vols 1-4 & 9-10), 225 copies
(vol 7), 250 copies (vol 8), 300 copies (vols 6) and 350 copies (vol 5).
Volume 10 signed and dated by the editor, and, loosely tiiiipped in, the
original editor’s hand-written invoice for the first three vols.
(10)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
643
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CARPENTER (Mary).
Reformatory prison discipline, as
developed by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Crofton, in the Irish convict
prisons.
Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyrer [Bristol printed]
1872
FIRST EDITION, with a folding table, pp xv, 143 and advert
leaf, small 8vo, original brown cloth: light foxing of title-page
otherwise a remarkably bright, fresh and attractive copy.
“The object of Prison Discipline is to transform offenders into honest self-
supporting men and women, and eventually to minimise crime in
Society. “ - Intro. Mary Carpenter (1807-77), philanthropist, was
primarily concerned with the plight of the poor, both in England and in
India. In 1846 she opened a ragged school in Lewin’s Mead, Bristol and
while improving the buildings etc. she began to consider the possibility of
schools, which by the application of moral discipline, might reform
young offenders. Her ideas thus spread naturally from the condition of
the children of the poor to the need for reformatories and industrial
schools.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
644
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CARTARI (Vincenzo).
Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis
colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, cærimoniæ, magnaq; ex
parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario
Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque Italica
lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem
Latino sermone ab Antonio Verderio... expressae atque in
meliorem ordinem digestae …
Lugduni, (in fine: excudebat
Guichardus Iullieron) apud Barptolemaeum Honoratum,
1581
FIRST EDITION THUS, with Honarat’s vase device on title-
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