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BEAUMARCHAIS: - Arnould (Emile J. F.).
La Genèse du
Barbier de Séville,
Dublin & Paris
1965. Folio cloth in dw, pages
506. (4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
231
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HOME (Henry), Lord Kames.
Elements of Criticism. The
eighth edition. In two volumes.
Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and
Company, for Bell & Bradfute …,
1807
Pages xvi, 518, (2, blank): 575, without half-titles, 2 vols, 8vo,
contemporary half calf, fully gilt spines, double lettering pieces,
gilt: a very good-nice and outwardly attractive copy.
A work remarkable in the history of aesthetics for its attempt to equate
beauty with what is pleasant to the natural senses of sight and hearing.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
D’ISRAELI (Isaac).
Amenities
of literature; consisting of sketches and characters of English
literature, illustrating the literary, political, and religious
vicissitudes of the English people. In three volumes. Second
edition.
Edward Moxon,
1842. Pages xii, 372: vi, 431: vi, 420, 3
vols, 8vo, original cloth: light suggestion of foxing in places and
just the slightest of wear at headbands, still an attractive copy in
original state.
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BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE.
General Index to
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. Vols. I to L.
Edinburghh and
London: William Blackwood and Sons,
1855. Pages (4), 588, 16
(adverts), 8vo, original cloth: the inside joints cracked but the
binding, though a little dull, is sound and strong. (6)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
232
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HOME RULE CONFERENCE IRELAND, 1873.
Proceedings of the Home Rule Conference: held at the
Rotunda, Dublin, on the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st November,
1873, with list of conference ticket holders, index to speakers,
index to sujects treated of in the debates, constitution and laws
of the Irish Home Rule League, and final report of the Home
Government Association.
Dublin: The Irish Home Rule League,
1874
FIRST EDITION, pp xx, 215, 8vo, original yellow stiff printed
wraps: bright, fresh copy.
Carty 1126 quotes 213-pages only: page 215, containing “Publications
bearing on the Home Rule question”, is frequently lacking. A printed
note on verso of title-page thanks “Mr. J. G. Swift Mac Neill, one of
their number, for the care and attention with which he has
superintended the publication and prepared the indices of Speakers and
Subjects. “
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[PIGOTT (Richard) ].
Parnellism.
By an Irish Nationalist. Eleventh edition.
Dublin (no publisher or
printer)
1885. Pages (4), 50, (2, blank), 8vo, recent quarter calf,
gilt: a very good copy.
P. S. O’Hegarty, historian and bibliographer of the nationalist struggle,
attributed this work to the Parnell forger Richard Pigott.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
233
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HOOLE (John).
Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia: a tragedy.
As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed by W. Spotswood, for the United Company of
Booksellers,
1775
FIRST IRISH EDITION?, pages 54, (2, epilogue), (1, adverts),
(3, blank), 12mo, recent wrapper: a very good to nice copy, with
leaves A2 to D6 printed on pale blue tinted paper.
See Stratman 2390. The sheets were also issued with a titlepage
omitting the printer’s name. The last copy we handled was bound with
the end blank leaf but not the advert leaf and signatures C and D only
were printed on the same pale blue paper.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JEPHSON (Robert).
Braganza.
A tragedy. Performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed for R. Moncrieffe,
1775. Pages 70, (2, blank), with
the half-title, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: the title-page lightly
dusty but otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Walpole. The dedication is dated Feb. 1775 and written from “Dublin
Castle”.
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YOUNG (Edward).
The Brothers. A tragedy. Acted at the
Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing,
W. Smith … (and six others),
1753. FIRST IRISH EDITION,
pages 71, (1), 12mo, recent wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Stratman 6789. Page 59 misnumbered 56.
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KELLY (Hugh).
The Romance of an Hour, a comedy, of
two acts, as it is performed, with universal applause, at the
Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs.
Exshaw, Sleater, Hay, Potts … (and ten others),
1775. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, 40-pp, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to
nice copy.
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CUMBERLAND (Richard).
The Fashionable Lover; a
comedy: as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw … (and fourteen others),
1772. Pages (8), 64, 12mo, recent marbled paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
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CUMBERLAND (Richard).
The Choleric Man. A comedy.
As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin:
Printed for Messrs Exshaw, Sleater, Potts (and eleven others),
1775.
FIRST IRISH EDITION (?), pages 82, (2, blank), 12mo, recent
marbled paper wrapper: a tiny burn hole in leaf B8 affects only
a couple of letters, otherwise a very good copy.
With epilogue by
Garrick.
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€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
234
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HOPE (George Curling).
Knitting and Crochet; tales and
poetry: a melange of instruction and amusement for the work-
table. Being the year’s volume of the “Ladies’ Needlework
Penny Magazine”. Edited by G. Curling Hope.
London: Aylott
and Jones, Hastings: I. Hope, Marine Library and Berlin Depot
[1849]
FIRST EDITION, ALL PUBLISHED, with some illustrations,
pages (2), ii, 286, (2), large 12mo, contemporary half calf, with
label, gilt, by Bigger of Dublin, with his ticket: very good.
Not
represented in COPAC and NSTC has the Bodleian copy only.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
RUSKIN (John).
The Elements
of Drawing; in three letters to beginners.
Smith, Elder, and Co.,
1857. FIRST EDITION, with 48 illustrations after the author,
pp xxii, (2), 350, (1), with half-title, 8vo, contemporary full
crimson morocco, gilt bordered sides, fully gilt and gilt-lettered
spine, edges gilt: light suggestion of foxing at beginning and end
but still an attractive copy.
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MATTHEWS (Henry).
The Diary of an Invalid: being the
journal of a tour in pursuit of health, in Portugal, Italy,
Switzerland, and France, in the years 1817, 1818,. and 1819.
Fifth edition.
Paris: Baudry’s European Library,
1836. Pages xii,
362, wanting half-title, 12mo, contemporary half calf: very good
to nice copy.
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EBEL (Johann Gottfried).
Manuel du Voyageur en Suisse
… Par M. J. -G. Ébel … Traduit de l’Allemand [by J. Gaudin].
Neuvième édition française … Troisième partie, contenant le
dictionnaire topographique.
Paris, Bastien Ainé …, circa
1830. Pp
(2), (137) -694, complete thus, 12mo, cont. half calf, gilt ruled
spine, with label: nice.
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TAYLOR (Isaac), of Ongar, 1759-1829.
Scenes of
Commerce, by land and sea; or, “where does it come from?”
answered. Fourth edition.
Grant and Griffith,
1845. With
engraved frontispiece and 66 illustrations on 24 engraved plates,
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