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Sweeney, Tony. Ireland and the PrintedWord.
A short descriptive catalogue of early books, pamphlets, newsletters and broadsides relating to Ireland. Printed:
1475-1700. Dublin: Eamon de Burca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp 1000. First edition (no. 41 of 250). Signed by
author and publisher.
Reference library of the Late James Fenning, antiquarian bookseller.
Estimate €200-€300 £150-£220
Large Image & Place Bid 418419
Taylor, John. Monsieur Tonson, A Tale, and others.
Circa 1820. Broadsheet. Written by J. Taylor Esq., and Spoken by Mr Fawcett”. A comic anti-French and anti-Catholic
poem, recited by John Fawcett at The Freemasons’Tavern. Taylor (1757-1832) was a writer and journalist, and later ed-
itor and proprietor of The Sun, a Tory newspaper, from 1813 to 1825. also with this lot 1805 broadsheet for St. George
Hanover-Square Day-Schools of Instruction and Industry advertising a sermon, printed law cases of 1701 concerning
the Earls of Sandwich and Lisburn v Earl of Litchfield, and James Thwaites v John Dey, and some letters including one
from writer Lady Mary Carbery. (7)”
12 x 9in. (30.48 x 22.86cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £70-£110
Large Image & Place Bid 419