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attractive: a very good copy with the ‘hand-print’ bookplate of
Ephraim McDowel Cosgrave, M. D. (1853-25), inscribed by him
on flyleaf “E. Mac D. Cosgrave / from L. R. S. “ [Leonard R.
Strangways] with the date, 1901, added in a different ink.
A primary source for this major figure in late 18C Dublin architecture
and a very scarce book. Maurice Craig describes it as essential and notes
that the MS materials from which it was compiled have vanished.
Cosgrave, founder of the original Irish Georgian Society in 1908,
collaborated with Strangways in the publication of The Dictionary of
Dublin, 1897 and other interesting, if not always accurate, works
(Craig). The striking bookplate here is number seven in a list of eight
Cosgrave bookplates in Martin’s Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
825
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GARDINER (Wm.).
Sights in Italy, with some account of
the present state of music and the sister arts in that country.
Longman, Brown …
(1847)
FIRST EDITION, pp viii, 408, with half-title and many music
examples, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, gilt, fully gilt spine,
with label, gilt: light foxing of endpapers and the binding lightly
worn but sound and strong: an attractive copy with an
inscription, dated Easter 1861, to Henry William Gore Booth
on his leaving Eton - a nice Lissadell provenance.
Gardiner (1770-1853), musical composer, member of the Adelphi
Philosophical Society, played viola from a manuscript copy of
Beethoven’s Op 3 trio - the first performance in England of anything by
Beethoven. This present work, his last, “was the outcome of a tour
made at the age of seventy-seven, yet written with a wonderful freshness
of interest in pictures, persons and performances. “ - D. N. B.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BLACKBURN (Henry).
Artistic
Travel in Normandy, Brittany, the Pyrenees, Spain and Algeria.
Sampson Low, Marston and Company,
1892. FIRST EDITION,
with 130 full-page and other illustrs after the author, Samuel
Prout, S. P. Hall, A. E. Browne, Randolph Caldecott, Gustave
Dore, aand others, pp xiii, (1), 320, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt,
fully gilt spine, with contrasting label, gilt: very good to nice.
(2)
ROGERS (Samuel).
Italy, a poem. With 75 cuts.
Paris:
Baudry’s European Library …,
1840. With an engraved
frontispiece amd some 75 text woodcuts, pages (6), 30, 31*-34*,
31 - 252, 12mo, contemporary half red calf, gilt spine, with
label, gilt: the binding a little rubbed and dull but sound and
strong and otherwise a very good copy.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
826
.
GARGANO (Michael di), pseud?.
Irish and English
freemasons and their foreign brothers: their system, oaths,
ceremonies, secrets, grips, signs, and passwords. By Michael di
Gargano. With official list of names and coloured illustrations.
Dublin: M. H. Gill … London: Simpkin, Marshall … Burns & Oates,
1877
With 5 plates (4 coloured and one of grips and handshakes in
black and white), pp 24: 25-50: 51-108, 3 vols, 4to, each in their
original coloured printed wrappers, together in plain cloth-
backed stiff paper boards: the spine worn but in clean and very
good state throughout
Uncommon: COPAC locates copies at Edinburgh and Cambridge, the
latter does not have the leaves comprising pages 83-108 - a lengthy list of
the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Ireland - these are also lacking in
the copy in D on-line. Bodleian has the 1883 edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
LEPPER (John H.) & CROSSLE
(Philip).
History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of Ireland. Vol. I.
Dublin: Lodge of Research,
1925.
FIRST EDITION, with many plates and illustrations, pages
542, (1), roy 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: inside joints secure
and binding sound and strong but lightly marked: very good.
The standard work, covering the period to 1812. A second and
concluding volume, in smaller format, covering the period to 1957,
followed.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
827
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GARRICK (David).
Lethe. A dramatic satire. As it was
perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by his majesty’s
servants.
Belfast: Printed by and for James Magee in Bridge street,
1759
32-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: some light browning, but
a very good copy.
ESTC locates copies at L, BFl, D, Dt, Mru / TxHR. KU-S. The first
Belfast edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[FORREST (Theodosius)].
The
Weathercock, or Ladies Fortune-Teller. A musical entertainment
of two acts; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden;
with universal applause.
Dublin: Printed for Thomas Wilkinson, at
No. 40, Winetavern- Street, Corner of Cook-Street …,
[?1780].
FIRST IRISH EDITION,23-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper:
a nice copy.
ESTC locates copies at BFp, L, Dp, D, Dt, O / PPL, TxHR, CLU-C.
Forrest (c. 1728–84), lawyer and songwriter, studied drawing under
George Lambert but then entered his father’s legal practice. As solicitor
to the Covent Garden Theatre, he was able to maintain close ties with
the arts. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy. A passion and a
talent for music led him to compose a number of popular songs,
including ‘I made love to Kate’ and his own musical after-piece ‘The
Weathercock’. It was not well received and was later described as ‘poor
stuff ’ (Genest,5. 512). He also listed a number of prominent dramatists
among his friends. In his early life Gay, Pope, and Swift were said to
think of him as ‘their playfellow and companion’ (Tyers, 877). He was
later a regular and much-liked member of the Beefsteak Club.
(2)
[VANBRUGH (Sir John)].
The Pilgrim, a comedy: as it is
acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane. Written originally by
Mr. Fletcher; and now very much alter’d, with several additions.
Likewise a prologue, epilogue, dialogue and masque: written by
the late great poet, Mr. Dryden, just before his death; being the
last of his works.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for William Smith at
the Hercules in Dame-street,
1745. 72-pages, 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Of this edition ESTC locates copies at D, Dt, Du, O / NNC, DFo,
PPL, TxU.
(3)
COLMAN (George), the younger.
The Famil y Party; a
comic piece, in two acts, as acted at the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J.
Moore, J. Jones, Grueber and M’Allister, and W. Jones,
1789. FIRST
IRISH EDITION, pp (12) 48, with half-title, 12mo, recent
wraps: very good copy.
The piece’s only Dublin printing of the period.
(4)
STEELE (Sir Richard).
The Funeral: or, Grief a-la-mode. A
comedy.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk,
1743. Pages
(8), 71, (1), 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice
copy.
Also issued as part of: ’The works of Sir Richard Steele’, Dublin, 1759
and ’The dramatick works of the late Sir Richard Steele’, Dublin,
1743.
(5)
COLMAN (George), the younger.
As it is performed,
with the utmost applause, at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market,
London; and the Theatre Royal, Crow-Street, Dublin. The
music selected and composed by Dr. Arnold, organist and
composer to His Majesty. 1794.
Possibly the first Dublin edition: there was another Dublin edition of
the same year with the imprint “Printed for the Booksellers”.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
828
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GARSTON (Edgar).
Greece revisited and Sketches in
Lower Egypt in 1840. With thirty-six hours of a campaign in
Greece in 1825.
Saunders & Otley,
1842
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