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Books 198 Egan, Pierce. Sporting Anecdotes and Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life. Sporting Anecdotes Original and Selected Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life Who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table and in the diversions of the field with sketches of various animals of the chase: etc. Sherwood, Jones, and Co., London, 1825, 8vo, 592pp, rebound half calf gilt and marbeled boards; Pierce Egan’s Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life:Embracing the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage. Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc. T.T. and J. Tegg, London, 1832, first edition, 8vo. 414pp., brown cloth gilt. (2) Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 198 199 Eliot, TS. Dante, signed first edition. Faber & Faber, London, 1929. 12mo, illustrated paper covered boards with matching dust jacket design by Rex Whistler, signed to the title page by TS Eliot, loosely inserted Faber and Faber compliment slip. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£180) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 199 200 Irish artists, books signed by author, arstist and subjects of artist. Fallon, Brian. Edward McGuire RHA Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1991. large 8vo, 143pp. The illustrated portraits signed by Garech de Brún, Eamon Morrissey, Anthony Cronin, Paul Durcan, Michael Longley and John Montague; also a smaller catalogue illustration signed by Paddy Maloney; Fallon, Brian. Imogen Stuart Sculptor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2002, Fo, 160pp, signed and inscribed to the title page by Brian Fallon and Imogen Stuart; and Breon O’Casey A Decade. Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall, 2009, Fo, 104pp, signed to the title page by Breon O’Casey. (3) Estimate €180-€220 (approx £160-£200) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 200 201 Fairfax, Thomas. The complete Sportsman; Mayer, John The Sportsman’s Directory; and Fairburn’s New Drawing Books no. 23. Fairfax, The complete Sportsman or country gentleman’s recreation. J. Cooke, London, 1760, 12mo, 240pp, rebound, original calf boards; Mayer, The Sportsman’s Directory or Park and gamekeeper’s companion,Colchester, 1817, 12mo, 223pp, two engraved plates of birdtraps, paper covered boards; Fairburn’s New Drawing Books, No. 23, circa 1820, eight engraved plates on four sheets, in original yellow illustrated wrappers. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 201