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Common Pleas, in Easter and Trinity terms, in the twenty-
eighth year of George III. 1788.
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, (No.
108) Grafton-Street,
1789 [actually 1790?]. Pages (8),205, (4),207-
282, (4),284-369, (4), 370-526, with the half-title and 8 blank
leaves bound in at end, 8vo, contemporary sheep, with label,
gilt: contemporary signature of J. Bourne on half-title, repeated
on title-page with the addition of price “18/- / binding 3/6 /
21/6”: in very good to nice state.
An edition not traced in ESTC or COPAC, but Worldcat has two
copies. Not on-line in D or Dt. Presumably intended to accompany a
volume of Exchequer Reports. A very faint numeral three in ink in a
contemporary hand on the spine would perhaps, confirm this, yet the
contemporary ownsrship inscription suggests it was originally purchased
alone. The volume embraces Easter term,28th George III 1788 to
Trinity term, 30th George III, 1790.
(2)
DE LOLME (Jean L.).
The Constitution of England, or an
account of the English government...
Dublin: Printed for W.
Wilson
1775. Pages ix, (1, blank),257, (1, blank), without the
half-title, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked: a good to
very good copy of this uncommon edition
Translated from the French by Gilbert Stuart. First published in
English in 1775, for many years a standard work on the English
constitution, representing England as the only country where
government was both strong and free.
(3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1195
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PLOWDEN (Francis Peter).
A postliminious preface to
the Historical Review of the State of Ireland … containing a
statement of the author’s communications with the Right Hon.
Henry Addington, and some of his colleagues, upon the subject
of that work; some strictures upon the falsities of The British
Critic; and other anonymous traducers of the Irish nation; and
also some observations on Lord Redesdale’s letters to the Earl of
Fingall. Second edition.
Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick,
1804
80-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrappers: a very good copy.
Plowden’s Historical Review, sponsered by the government, supported
the Act of Union and sought to refute Musgrave’s allegations that the
1798 insurrection had been a Catholic conspiracy. This preface,
published later and separately, is decidedly uncommon.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[TICKELL (Richard)].
An
English green box: or, the green box of the R-t H—e E—d L-d
Churllow, given by the celebrated Mrs. Harvey to Roger
O’Tickle... With occasional remarks by the editor. Dedicated to
the Right Hon. Edward Lord Thurlow.
Dublin: Printed by R.
Marchbank, for the company of booksellers.
1779. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, 96-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: with some
some light browning, but a very good copy with many of the
names identified in a contemporary hand.
While ESTC locates some eighteen copies of this Dublin edition, only
three of them are in the USA: CSmh, RPJCB, and IU. “This sattire on
Lord Thurlow, in imitation of Richard Tickell’s Green Box, contins a
number of references to the American conflict. “ - Adams, 79-29c.
(2)
JEBB (Richard).
A reply to a pamphlet, entituled
Arguments for and against an Union.
Dublin: Printed for William
Jones, No. 26, College-Green …,
1798. FIRST EDITION, pages iv,
67, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
McCormack R9. When the possibility of abolishing the Irish
parliament was being discussed, Jebb published this pamphlet, a
rebuttal of the views of the under-secretary, Edward Cooke. In a work
widely read in several editions that year, Jebb predicted that the
abolition of the Dublin parliament would injure the local economy
greatly if ‘principal nobility’ and ‘first gentlemen’ no longer had to
reside either in their constituencies or in Dublin. He suggested, in an
effort to sway government opinion, that the Irish parliament might give
up the right to differ from the monarch over declarations of war and
similar matters. He argued that not all catholics could be blamed for the
rebellion; instead, he blamed revolutionary theorists and the pernicious
influence of the French republic. Even though he opposed the union, his
moderate and clearly argued work impressed the government; he
declined the offer of a seat in the post-union parliament at Westminster
(CDIB).
(3)
RUDD (Pemberton).
An answer to the pamphlet entitled
Arguments for and against an Union, &c. &c. in a letter
addressed to Edward Cooke, Esq, secretary at war.
Dublin:
Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street
1799 [recte 1798]. FIRST
EDITION, pages 35, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
McCormack A16.
(4)
[COOKE (Edward)].
Arguments for an against an union,
between Great Britain and Ireland, considered.
Dublin: Printed
for J. Milliken,
1799. FIRST IRISH EDITION(?), pages (2),58,
8vo, recent paper wrapper: the title-page evenly dusty and the
final leaf misbound to follow title: a very good copy.
“An examination of some variants strongly suggests that Milliken’s
1799 imprints preceded the December 1798 ones. Burnside’s edition was
a piracy. “ - McCormack A24. “This pamphlet, which was taken to
represent views held in higher quarters, called forth many replies. It is a
temperate examination of the problem, resting the case for the union on
grounds conciliatory to all classes of the Irish people. Large concessions
to the Roman catholics are foreshadowed as the natural sequel to a
measure which, in other ways, the writer did much to forward. He was
the intermediary in most of the transactions, questionable and
otherwise, by which legislative support was obtained for the Union Act”
– DNB
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1196
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POE (Edgar A.).
The Poetical Works … Edited by James
Hannay. With illustrations by E. H. Wehnert, James Godwin, F.
W. Hulme, Harrison Weir and Anelay. Complete edition.
Griffin,
Bohn and Company, circa
1865
With 8 plates and 19 other illustrations, pages xxxii, (2), (35) -
189, (2), small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, edges gilt, by Burn,
with ticket: the binding lightly discoloured but sound and strong
and otherwise a very good to nice copy of an uncommon early
UK edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
STANHOPE (Elizabeth Still),
Countess of Harrington: - Hauff (W.).
The Storks. The False
Prince. From the German. Freely translated.
Henry Sotheran and
Co.,
1875. FIRST EDITION THUS, pp 78, (2, blank), square
12mo, original mauve, green or brown cloth (yes, we can supply
copies in any of those colours): binding spotted with loss of
lettering to spine, but sound, strong & otherwise fine, unmarked
and mostly unopened.
Morgan 3796. Juvenile tales not in Osborne. NSTC has BL and O only.
(2)
MEYNELL (Alice).
Later Poems.
John Lane,
1902 (1901).
FIRST EDITION, pp 37, (4, ads), small 8vo, original cloth, gilt:
a very small and very faint ink stain in extreme upper outer
corner of two preliminary blank leaves, otherwise clean and
very good: inscribed on flyleaf “Deena Tyrrell / from / Cecil
Darling / Christmas 1902. “.
Deena Tyrrell sat for Walter Osborne.
(3)
REED (Henry H.).
Lectures on the British Poets.
John
Farquhar Shaw,
1857. FIRST UK EDITION, pages viii, 408,
8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: the inside rear joint cracked but the
binding sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy with
the contemporary signature of Wm. D’Alton Babington on the
title-page.,
First published in two vols in the same year at Philadelphia. Edited by
‘W. B. R. ‘ i. e. the author’s brother W. B. Reed. Henry Hope Reed
(1808-54), American literary critic and educator, best known for
assisting Wordsworth in the preparation of an American edition of his
poems in 1837.
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