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GORE (Montague).
Reply to Sir John Walsh’s pamphlet,
entitled, “The present balance of parties”. Second edition.
James
Ridgway,
1832
Pages (6), 76 and advert leaf, 8vo, recent, neat morocco-backed
marbled boards, gilt, uncut and unopened: a nice copy, inscribed
on half-title “With the author’s / Compts. “
Gore (1800-64), well-known contributor to the press, author of many
pamphlets on political and social subjects, especially with respect to
Ireland, the dwellings of the poor, and national defence. John Benn
Walsh, first Baron Ormathwaite (1798–1881), an energetic politician
and an able writer, published several pamphlets on parliamentary
reform, the second of which, Observations on the Ministerial Plan of
Reform (1831), Ellenborough thought would secure him ‘a good efficient
place’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PHILLIPS (Charles).
The
speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq., delivered at the bar, and on
various public occasions in Ireland and England. Edited by
himself.
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees …,
1817. FIRST
COLLECTED EDITION, pages xvi,205, (1, errata), 8vo, neatly
bound in recent calf-backed marbled boards: with a very small
strip neatly cut from the extreme upper blank margin of the title-
page, otherwise a very good, uncut copy.
Phillips(1786–1859), Sligo barrister, made a reputation through his
extravagant forensic speeches, a number of which are here first collected,
with a 10-page prefatory ‘letter’ by John Finlay: many other editions
followed. He spoke warmly on behalf of Catholic Emancipation and
received a national testimonial in 1813.
(2)
HOLMES (Robert).
The Case of Ireland Stated. Fifth
edition, corrected.
Dublin: James McGlashan,
1847. Pp 102 &
advert leaf, 8vo, some light browning, but very good in
contemporary half calf
Holmes (1765-1859), lawyer, opponent of the Union, resigned from the
lawyer’s corps of the Yeomen during 1798 in protest at atrocities
committed by government forces under Lake, imprisoned on suspicion of
supporting the 1803 uprising of his brother-in-law Robert Emmet,
became father of the north-east circuit and rejected any offers of
government advancement, earning the nickname ‘Bitter Bob’.
(3)
DUIGENAN (Patrick).
A fair representation of the present
political state of Ireland: in a course of strictures on two
pamphlets … ‘The Case of Ireland Re-Considered’ …
‘Considerations on the state of public affairs in … 1799, -
Ireland; ‘ with observations on other modern publications on …
an … union … particularly the speech of Lord Minto …
Genuine edition, corrected by the author.
Dublin: Printed for J.
Milliken,
1800. Pp (4),253, (1, blank), without initial advert leaf,
8vo, recent quarter morocco: very good
Duigenan was one of the leading speakers on the government side during
the debates on the subject of an Union, and when it was finally carried
he was appointed one of the commissioners for distributing compensation
under it.
(4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
858
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[GOTHER or GOTER (John)].
Instructions for
Apprentices and Servants.
[London:] Printed in the Year
1718
Pages 50, (2), signed A-B12, C2, recent boards, with label: a very
good to nice copy.
An uncommon edition of a work first published in 1699.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[KNIGHT (Charles)].
The
working-man’s companion. The results of machinery, namely
cheap production and increased employment exhibited: being an
address to the working-men of the United Kingdom.
Charles
Knight …,
1831. THIRD EDITION,216-pages, 12mo, original
unlettered cloth, with blue printed paper label on upper board:
the boards loose, internally very good
A powerful anti-Luddite exposition, first published during the same year.
Machinery and the progress of technology will, he claims, eventually be
to the working man’s advantage.
(2)
BARNARD (Frances Catherine), Mrs Alfred Barnard.
The
Work-Bag, or the young statuaries. By Mrs. Alfred Barnard,
authoress of Conversations at the Work-Table [,] Embroidered
Facts, &c.
Published by Joseph Graham
1844. With attractive
engraved frontispiece, pages (4), 104, 12mo, original cloth, gilt:
very good.
No edition in COPAC. WorldCat hastwo copies (Stanford &
Philadelphia Free Library) of an editon of 1837, same pagination. The
BL has five titles by her, various publishers, published between 1836 and
1845, but not this one. Osborne catalogue has none of her titles.
(3)
CRAIK (George L.).
The History of British Commerce,
from the earliest times. Reprinted from The Pictorial History of
England; with corrections, additions, and a continuation to the
present day. In three volumes.
Charles Knight
1844. FIRST
EDITION THUS, pages 272: 220: (2),284, 8 (adverts), complete
in spite of pagination errors, 3 vols in l, large 12mo, recent
boards: very good.
(4)
BRIGGS (Thomas).
Poverty, Taxation, and the Remedy:
free trade, free labour; or, direct taxation the true principle of
political economy. Universal free trade the first condition of
universal peace.
William Reeves
[1884]. SECOND EDITION, pp
viii,213, (1), (2, blank), large 12mo, original cloth, gilt: very good
Briggs, of Richmond, Surrey, first published this in [1871] as ‘The
Peacemaker’.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
859
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GRACE (William Gilbert).
Cricket.
Bristol: J. W.
Arrowsmith …,
1891
FIRST EDITION, with 45 plates on india paper, pages xii,512,
including list of subscribers, 4to, original half black calf, gilt, top
edges gilt: the spine neatly repaired and with a little wear at the
lower edges and corners, but still a nice copy.
Edition de luxe, limited to 653 copies, numbered and signed by Grace. A
subscriber’s copy, with his bookplate, E. Wormald, 12 South Audley
Street, London. A classic book: combining a history of the game and
Grace’s autobiography.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
860
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GRADY (Thomas).
No. III. or, The Nosegay; being the
third leter of the Country Post-Bag, from the Man to the
Monster. By Thomas Grady, Esq. author of The Barrister, and of
several other popular productions. The second edition, with
additions.
Dublin: Printed for the Author,
1816
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 6 engraved plates by
Brocas, including portrait and plate of music (‘Nelly Cusack’),
pages x, (11) - 108, (2), complete with the half-title, 8vo, original
boards, old neat rebacking in cloth, new endpapers: neatly
inscribed on title-page in a contemporary hand “6 March 1816 /
BN / FS”: a very good to nice copy.
A ferocious verse satire, dedicated to Thomas Moore, on George Evans
Bruce, a Limerick banker of shady antecedents. Bruce successfully sued
for libel and secured damages of fifty pounds. O’Connell was Grady’s
counsel at the trial. Sooner than pay, Grady fled and died c. 1820 in
either Brussels or Boulogne. First published 1815, without plates and of
just 26-pages, this second edition contains considerable additional
material. Complete in itself, ‘No. 1’ being an entirely different work and
‘No. 2’, as far as we know, was never published.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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