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parliamentary reporter for his uncle John Henry Barrow’s Mirror of
Parliament, Stanley, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, brought his Bill
for the Suppression of Disturbances in Ireland before the House. He
gave a speech that was so long, that the Mirror reporters had to work in
shifts to transcribe it. Dickens took down the first and last parts, and
when it was published, all except these were found to be full of errors.
Stanley contacted Barrow and asked him to send the reporter responsible
for transcribing these portions to his house so that he might copy down
the whole speech, as it was to be printed for circulation in Ireland.
Stanley’s very strong Peace Preservation Act empowered the lord
lieutenant to suppress meetings and to declare disturbed districts under
martial law. His dramatic description in the Commons, on 27 February
1833, of the murder and rural outrages occurring in Ireland secured
parliamentary support for the measure. Lord John Russell regarded this
speech as ‘one of the greatest triumphs ever won in a popular assembly
by the powers of oratory’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
RUSSELL (Robert), FRSE, of
Pilmuir, Leven.
Ulster tenant-right for Ireland, or notes upon
notes taken during a visit to Ireland in 1868. By Robert Russell,
F. R. S. E., Pilmuir, Fife, author of “North America, its
agriculture and climate. “
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,
1870. FIRST EDITION,59-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good to nice copy.
WorldCat and COPAC both have the BL copy only. An edition not
found on-line in D or Dt. A second edition, not quite so scarce and
greatly enlarged, followed during the same year. Black 8774 records only
the second edition, locating copies at Dt and UCD.
(2)
CANNING (George): -.
The Grand Vizier Unmasked; or,
remarks on the supposed claims of Mr. Canning to public
confidence: in an appeal to the British parliament and people.
Saunders and Otley,
1827. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 65, 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Later editions, it ran to four by the following year, were signed ‘A
Protestant Tory’. It was answered by The Protestant Tory Refuted, and
A Short View of Recent Changes, which provoked A Refutation of the
Principal Arguments.
(3)
MACLAGAN (Peter).
Land culture and land tenure in
Ireland. The results of observations during a recent tour in
Ireland.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons …,
Hodges, Foster, & Co.; W. H. Smith & Sons, Dublin
1869. FIRST
EDITION, pages (2), 78, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good
to nice copy.
Black 8653.
(4)
RUSSELL (John), first Earl Russell.
A letter to the Right
Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M. P. on the state of Ireland.
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1868. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 93,
(3, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Russell (1792-1878) visited his estate in Ireland in December 1867 and
was ‘determined to make a move about education’. He brought a series
of resolutions before the Lords in which he asserted the moral right of
every child to the blessings of education. He addressed a Letter to the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue on the State of Ireland, followed by a
second Letter and a third, arguing, as ever, in favour of concurrent
endowment (ODNB).
(5)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1309
.
STANLEY (Henry M.).
In Darkest Africa or, the quest,
rescue, and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria.
Sampson
Low …,
1890
SUBSCRIBERS’ EDITION, with 165 illustrs, including a
portrait, 3 folding coloured maps, 62 plates (1 coloured), a
folding table and full-page and other illustrs, pages xxxi, (1),
160: 161-336: 337-512: 513-529, (1); xv, 144: 145-320: 321- 472,
xv,2 vols in 6, roy 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, gilt: light
foxing in two places and a short tear without loss in one map,
otherwise a bright, attractive set with no weakness in the inside
joints and with the leaf of conditions of publication retained
(“this leaf not to be bound with the volume”).
“Stanley finally solved the problem of the Nile. He approached the
region through the Congo forests, discovered the Ruwenzori Mountains,
traced the Semliki River to the Edward Lake, explored the latter, and
escorted Emin to the east coast. It was a magnificent end to his career as
an explorer. “ - Baker. Emin Pasha had been isolated by the withdrawal
of the missionaries from Uganda in 1885, and by the death of Gordon
at Khartoum in the same year. This larger format special subscriber
edition is uncommon, particularly so in such nice condition, as here.
(6)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1310
.
STAPLETON (Thomas).
Promptuarium morale super
Euangelia dominicalia totius anni. Ad instructionem
concionatorum, reformationem peccatorum, consolationem
piorum. Ex sacris scripturis ss. patribus & optimis quibusque
authoribus studiose collectum. Pars aestiualis.
Venetijs: apud
haeredes Melchioris Sessae, 1597 (Venetiis, 1598).
1597
With the Sessa woodcut cat device on title-page, pages (26), 43 –
686 (i. e. 680), complete thus, 8vo, contemporary vellum,
lacking ties: with a small very faint oval stamp on a blank
portion of the title-page, otherwise a clean and very good,
unsophidticsted copy.
An edition not in Adams, WorldCat or COPAC. However, it is well
represeted in EDIT 16 (though making no mention of the pagination
error at end). Stapleton (1535-98), an able, skilful and erudite RC
controversialist. The circumstances of his time led him to treat especially
of the relation of the Pope to the temporal power, a matter in which he
ascribed more limited rights to the Pope than many RC writers. He was
one of the English writers on whose information Pius V mainly relied
when he issued his famous bull against Elizabeth.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
STAPLETON (Thomas).
Promptuarium morale super Evangelia dominicalia totius anni
… Editio altera, ab ipso authore auctia & recognita. Pars
Hyemalis..
Antverpiae, in Officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, &
Ioannem Moretum,
1593. With printer’s device on title-page,
pages (38), 750, (28), wanting initial blank flyleaves and title
lightly and evenly dusty with contemporary inscriptions on title-
page and front endpaper, 8vo, contemporary unlettered vellum,
with jesuit device on both boards within a narrow, inked florall
border.: the binding evenly dusty and discoulooured but sound
and strong: a very good copy.: with a small paper flaw at the
foot of leaf F4 affecting just a few letters, a litle dusty and the
binding just a little worn at corners, but still a very good copy.
Adams S 1659 (Cla & Emm only). Stapleton (1535-98), an able, skilful
and erudite RC controversialist. The circumstances of his time led him
to treat especially of the relation of the Pope to the temporal power, a
matter in which he ascribed more limited rights to the Pope than many
RC writers. He was one of the English writers on whose information
Pius V mainly relied when he issued his famous bull against Elizabeth.
His Promptuarium was first published in 1591, in two separate
volumes: the first Pars aestivalis, i. e. Summer part and the second Pars
Hyemalis, i. e. Winter part, the first commenting on the Gospel
readings for the 24 Sundays after Pentecost, which the second comments
on that of the remaining 28 Sundays.
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1311
.
STEELE (Sir Richard).
The importance of Dunkirk
considered: in defence of the Guardian of August the 7th. In a
letter to the Bailiff of Stockbridge.
Printed for A. Baldwin,
1713
FIRST EDITION, pages 63, (1, blank), 4to, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Goldsmiths’ 5087. In a fiery political Guardian (no. 128) Steele (1672-
1729) arraigned the government’s conduct concerning the destruction of
Dunkirk in the recently concluded treaty of Utrecht. Spokesmen on
Harley’s payroll chose to interpret the paper as an attack on the queen.
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