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Books 222 Leith, Ritchie. Ireland Picturesque and Romantic Heath’s Picturesque Annual for 1838. Ireland, Longman, London, 1838, gilt and blind embossed red calf, small 4to, with 19 engravings from drawings by D. M’Clise and T. Creswick. BOOKS Estimate €100-€200 (approx £90-£180) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 222 223 1855 Francis Sylvester Mahony (Fr Prout) autograph final verse of his poemThe Bells of Shandon, correcting a long-standing error. Together with two letters from Peter Burke to a Miss Gould of Beaconsfield, and two letters from Bernard Burke also to Miss Gould. The letter dated 10 Nov 1855 states that while in Dublin he was with Francis Mahony ( Father Prout ) and had him write the verse for her , he noted that Francis had corrected the common misprint ‘Kiosk, O !’ to ‘Kiosko’. There’s a bell in Moscow While on tower and kiosko In St. Sophia the Turkman gets And loud in air calls men to prayer From the tap’ring summit of tall minarets Such empty phantom I freely grant them But there’s an emblem more dear to me ’Tis the bells of Shandon that sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee. Francis Sylvester Mahony was born in Cork and educated at Clongowes Wood College, Kildare. He continued his education in various French, Jesuit colleges before returning to Clongowes as Master of Rhetoric. Mahony lost his position at Clongowes and moved to London. There, he became a leading contributor to Fraser’s Magazine, under the signature of “Father Prout” Estimate €500-€700 (approx £440-£620) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 223