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 | THE DUBLINERS. Revolution (Signed first Irish pressing by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly) Dublin: Tribune Records, 1970. First Irish pressing. Long-playing 12-inch vinyl record, catalogue number TRLP 1015, in original pictorial sleeve, illustrated with a colour photograph of the five members of The Dubliners standing and seated outside a Georgian doorway. Signed in ink on the front cover by Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly. The reverse features a […] €750.00 |
 | WEBSTER, William Bullock. Ireland Considered as a Field for Investment or Residence. (Signed by the Author) Dublin: Hodges and Smith; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., [c. 1852–53]. Small octavo. pp. 125. With folding hand-coloured “Geological Map to Webster’s Ireland,” showing the principal geological formations throughout the country. Publisher’s original red cloth, boards blind-stamped with ornamental design, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. Light wear to extremities and occasional spotting; folding […] €375.00 |
 | Baker, C.A. Souvenir of Ninety-Four Gift Battle-Planes which helped us to Victory, August 4th 1914 to November 11th 1918 (Australian and Malayan) Signed and inscribed by the author. London: The Field Press, 1920. 4to. pp. [x], 148. Limited edition printed for private circulation only. The titlepage drawn and illuminated by Fred Leist. Signed and inscribed by the author. Original full vellum, title in gilt on upper cover and spine, badge of RAF in gilt over a circular wreath with the arms of Australia, […] €575.00 |
 | SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley & OTHERS: A Volume of Plays, as they are Acted at the Theatre, Smoke-Alley, Dublin. Containing The School for Scandal, The Duenna, The Agreeable Surprise, Love-a-la-mode, The Poor Soldier. Bound with: Peeping Tom of Coventry; a Comic Opera, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Smoke-Alley. [Dublin]: Printed for the Booksellers, 1786. Medium 12mo. pp. [iv], 72, [2]; 37, [1], 32; 25, [1]; 28, 34, [1 (plate)]. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on original red morocco label on spine. Upper joint starting, but very firm. Inner joints strengthened. A very good copy. Internally near fine. [L1BC 2A] €685.00 |
 | MOODY, T.W., McDOWELL, R.B., & WOODS, C.J. Ed by. The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98. Tone’s Career in Ireland to June 1795. America, France and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796. France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798. Three volumes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009. pp. (1) xl, 540 (2) xviii, 435 (3) xxvi, 599. Pictorial wrappers. A fine set. [CH Top left] €450.00 |
 | BURRIDGE, Richard: Hell in an Uproar : Occasion’d by a Scuffle that happen’d between the Lawyers and the Physicians, for Superiority. A satyr. [Dublin]: [publisher not identified] Printed in the Year, 1725. Post octavo. pp. 15, [1]. Modern wrappers. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. ESTC T36082. Foxon B586. Richard Burbage (1567-1619) was one of Shakespeare’s closest associates and his partner in their many theatre activities. They were joint owners of The Globe Theatre, together with John Heminges, Augustine […] €1,250.00 |
 | SCOTT, Walter. The Vision of Don Roderick; A Poem. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne for John Ballantyne, 1811. Quarto. First edition, second state. Bound by Mullen of Dublin in full polished calf, covers with blind acanthus roll; spine divided into five panels by four gilt raised bands, armorial badge in gilt on first panel, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder with […] €675.00 |
 | D’ALTON, John. The History of Ireland (Hand-Coloured Set) D’ALTON, John. The History of Ireland. From the earliest period to the year 1245, when The Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalist, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the Barony of Boyle. […] €1,250.00 |
 | BELFAST POLICE: Act for Paving, Cleansing, Lighting, and Improving the Several Streets, Squares, Lanes, and Passages, within the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim ; and for Removing and Preventing all Encroachments, Obstructions, and Annoyances, therein; and also,For Establishing and Maintaining A Nightly Watch, throughout the said Town and Precincts thereof, and for other Purposes. Friday the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred, royal assent given. John Gayer, D. Cler. Parl. Belfast: Printed for the Police Committee, […] €265.00 |
 | ERLESTOKE MANSION SALE CATALOGUE Catalogue of the magnificent assemblage of property at Erlestoke Mansion near Devizes, in Wilts : accumulated, within this far-famed abode of taste and vertu, during the last twenty years, at an enormous expense, the whole selected by George Watson Taylor, Esq. M.P. … / which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Robins, on […] €1,250.00 |
 | RAILWAY POLICE: Rules to be Attended by the Police employed by the Great Southern and Western Railway until the opening of the line. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 87 Abbey-street, 1846. Post octavo. pp. 8. Original quarter cloth on marbled stiff card. Stamp duty rates laid on front pastedown. Signature of A. Scott on lower cover. A very good copy of an extremely rare item. [L3 3C] €575.00 |
 | Irish Metropolitan Magazine. Volume II. October, 1857 – Volume III, September 1858. Two volumes of three. Dublin: Edward J. Milliken & W. Robertson; London & Edinburgh: Simpkin, Marshall; Oliver and Boyd, 1857-1858. Demy octavo. pp. (2) iv, 720 (3) iv, 728. Contemporary full green morocco, covers ornately blocked in gilt with a large harp decorated with shamrocks in centre. Spines divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in […] €695.00 |
 | KAVANAGH, Patrick. Irish Mythology. A Dictionary. By Peter Kavanagh. Three volumes. New York: The Peter Kavanagh Hand-Press, 1958. First and only edition. Small quarto. pp. (1) ii, 50 (2) ii, 51-102, (3) ii, 103-152. All volumes of this dictionary have been hand-set in 12 point Egmont Light and printed on a hand-press. Limited to 100 numbered copies [No.37]. Pale blue papered boards, titled in black. A […] €1,250.00 |
 | COX, Richard. Hibernia Anglicana: or, The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English, to this Present Time. With an Introductory Discourse touching the Ancient State of that Kingdom. Two volumes. With large folding map being an Epitome of Sir William Petty’s Large Survey of Ireland and engraved frontispieces of William and Mary. London: Printed by H. Clark, for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1689-1690. Small folio. pp. (1) […] €1,850.00 |
 | McCLINTOCK, H.F. Old Irish and Highland Dress and that of the Isle of Man [WITH ORIGINAL DRAWINGS & GALLEY PROOF] Dundalk: Dundalgan, 1943. Quarto. pp. [xiv], 188, [32 (plates)]. Quarter linen on pictorial boards, title on upper cover. Loosely inserted are original drawings and a galley proof. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. Scarce. With chapters on pre-Norman dress as described in early Irish literature by Rev. Professor F. Shaw, S.J., and on […] €325.00 |
 | BEATTIE, James. The Minstrel [EDWARDS OF HALIFAX FINE ETRUSCAN BINDING] In two books. With some other poems. By James Beattie, LL.D. To which are now added, Miscellanies. By James Hay Beattie, with an account of his life and character. London: Printed by T. Gillet, Salisbury Square, for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and sold by A. Brown, Aberdeen, 1799. Post octavo. pp. (1) [viii], 120 […] €1,450.00 |
 | LONGFIELD, Ada K. [Mrs. H. Leask] Ed. by. Fitzwilliam Accounts 1560-65 (Annesley Collection) [FROM THE LIBRARY OF ÉAMON DE VALERA] Dublin: Stationery Office, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1960. Royal octavo. pp. xii, 139. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Éamon De Valera, with his signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Sir William Fitzwilliam was Receiver General in Ireland. The contents include: details of revenues; estimates of expenses; loans to […] €575.00 |
 | The Traveller’s New Guide Through Ireland: Containing A New and Accurate Description of the Roads, with Particulars of all the different Towns, Villages, Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats, Churches, Monastic Buildings, Antiquities and Natural Curiosities. Also, The Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce: With a Complete List of all the Fairs Throughout the Kingdom. Illustrated with a new and accurate Map of Ireland; Plan of the Lakes of Killarney, Views of the Giant’s Causeway, Waterfall at Powerscourt, Delineations of the Principal Post-Roads, With other plates. London: Published by Longman […] €375.00 |
 | BOVET, Madame de. Three Months’ Tour in Ireland. Translated and condensed by Mrs. Arthur Walter. With illustrations. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1891. 8vo. 312pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth, upper cover attractively decorated in gilt with a trailing shamrock design, spine lettered in gilt. Light occasional spotting, principally to preliminary leaves; contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A very good copy. An engaging late nineteenth-century account of a journey […] €275.00 |
 | ARCHDEKIN, Richard [Richardi ARSDEKIN]. Theologia Tripartita Universa, Complectens nune Bibliothecam perfecta Viri Ecclesiastici, ordine Sequenti. Tomus Primus. Controversiæ Heterodoxæ ac Scholasticæ. Tomi Secundi, Pars I. Theologia Speculativa. Tomi II. Pars II. Theologia Practica Universa. Tomus Tertius. Apparatus Practicus pro Omni Prorsus Functione Viri Ecclesiastici. Editionis Nonæ, ab Authore in singulis Partibus plurimum locupletatæ, & in novam Normam digestæ. Venice: Apud Io. Jacobum Hertz, 1696. Quarto. pp. [xvi], 249, [7], 402, [x], 232. Title printed in red and black. Three parts in one volume with separate titlepages and pagination. Complete with half-title. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards by Paddy Kavanagh, Museum Bookbinders. Neat old library stamp ‘Clongowes Wood’ on titlepage. Some occasional foxing. […] €1,350.00 |
 | BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. By Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1827/1832. First edition. Large post octavo. pp. (1) xxvii, [1], 476, (2) xiii, 4, 474, (3) xxxvi, 436. First and second volumes have “In two volumes”. Near contemporary half brown morocco on marbled boards. Spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, title and volume number in gilt […] €685.00 |
 | THOMPSON, H.S. Ireland in 1839 and 1869 (Signed by the Author) London: Dorrell and Son. Dublin: Hodges, Foster, 1870. pp. [iv], 115. Blue cloth, title in gilt within a garland of flowers on upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Armorial bookplate of Hastings Russell on front pastedown. A fine copy. Very scarce. In this work the author deals extensively with the Irish land question, […] €375.00 |
 | CRAIG, Maurice. Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800. With coloured frontispiece and numerous plates. London: Cassell, 1954. Quarto. pp. xi, 47, 58 (plates). Blue buckram, titled in gilt along spine. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. [L3 10E] €375.00 |
 | BOURKE, Richard Southwell. St. Petersburg and Moscow: A Visit to the Court of the Czar. Two volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1846. 12mo. pp. (1) xvi, 274, (2) x, 276. With half-titles. Original publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt, Arms of The Tsar in gilt on upper cover. Spines professionally rebacked. A very good set. Rare. JISC locates 10 copies only. Richard Southwell Bourke, one of seven sons, was born in Dublin, in […] €975.00 |
 | POCOCKE, Richard: Pococke’s Tour in Ireland in 1752. Edited with an introduction and notes by George T. Stokes. Dublin: Hodges Figgis. London: Simpkin Marshal, 1891. Crown octavo. First edition. pp. [ii], 187. Green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt on spine, publisher’s device in blind on both covers. Previous owner’s signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. Very scarce. COPAC with 6 locations only. Richard Pococke made extensive travels throughout Ireland from […] €375.00 |
 | MORRIS, F.O. Ed. by. A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated with fine colour plates. Six volumes London: William MacKenzie, (c.1880). Quarto. Contemporary full red morocco over bevelled boards, covers framed by double gilt fillets a wide gilt roll enclosing in the centre the title and royal Cypher blocked in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and […] €975.00 |
 | RONEY, Sir P. Cusack. How to Spend a Month in Ireland. With map. Illustrated. Third edition, with a large folding map of Ireland. London & Dublin: W.H. Smith, and at all Booksellers and Railway Stations, 1866. Crown octavo. pp. vii, 180, [2 (advertisements)]. Printed green wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. The author in his introduction encourages his English friends to spend a month in the sister country: […] €275.00 |
 | BAYNE, S.G. On An Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara. Illustrated. 136 New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Quarto. pp. 138. Pictorial cloth. Presentation inscription from the author on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Memoir of the author’s trip from New York to Queenstown, travelling to Londonderry, Gweedore, Ballinrobe, the Aran Islands, Limerick, etc. Complemented with photographs of […] €250.00 |
 | HOUSTOUN, Mrs. Twenty Years in The Wild West. Twenty Years in The Wild West; or, Life in Connaught. London: John Murray, 1879. pp. xii, 288, 32 (publisher’s list). Pictorial cloth. Signature of Isaac Latimer, dated Feb. 1880 on half title. A fine copy. Rare. An Englishwoman’s recollections of her twenty-two years of residence at Delphi, near Westport, County Mayo. An interesting work, instructive […] €875.00 |
 | AN OXONIAN, AN [S. Reynolds Hole]. A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengariff, Cork, etc. etc. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1859. First edition. Octavo. pp. xii, 220, [2]. With a fine hand-coloured folding frontispiece and 20 other illustrations (including full-page plates) by John Leech, the celebrated Punch cartoonist. Publisher’s original green cloth, covers panelled in blind with shamrock cornerpieces, upper cover gilt-blocked with a vignette of a car […] €485.00 |
 | COULTER, Henry. The West of Ireland: its Existing Condition, and Prospects. Illustrated with thirty-four lithographic plates (some coloured) and one folding map. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1862. pp. xii, 372, [36 (plates)], 20 (Adverts). Pebbled green cloth, title in gilt on spine, Hibernia and Britannia in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower. Some light spotting to a few plates. Lacking the telegraph map, as usual. Spine professionally rebacked. Stamp of Patrick O Gorman Tullaroan, […] €875.00 |
 | COLLINS, Michael. The Path to Freedom (Rare first edition) Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1922. First edition. pp. 153. Portrait frontispiece of Michael Collins. Original olive-green cloth, upper cover ruled and lettered in black with portrait of Collins, spine lettered in black. Some light foxing. Contemporary institutional stamp to preface leaf and in green ink to rear endpaper. Otherwise a very good copy. Published […] €675.00 |
 | BORLASE, William G: The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps. Three volumes. Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2013. Royal octavo. […] €295.00 |
 | AC/DC. Stiff Upper Lip World Tour Programme (Complete set of five signatures) [2000–2001]. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout with colour photographs of the band. Some light handling and rubbing to wrappers, otherwise a very good copy. An excellent piece of AC/DC memorabilia, considerably enhanced by the complete set of five signatures, including that of Malcolm Young (1953–2017) A particularly desirable copy, signed by all five members […] €850.00 |
 | KEANE, John B. More Irish Short Stories. (Signed by the Author) Cork: The Mercier Press, 1992. 8vo. pp. 123. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers, lightly rubbed at extremities; some spotting to edges and preliminaries, otherwise a very good copy. Signed by John B. Keane on the half-title: “Every good wish / John B. Keane”. With the original Danny Hannon Bookshop, Listowel, “Signed by the Author” label to upper […] €125.00 |
 | O’NEILL, Henry. Fine Arts and Civilisation of Ancient Ireland. Illustrated with chromo and other lithographs, and several woodcuts. London: Smith & Dublin, Herbert, 1858. Small folio. pp. vi, 118, 23 (plates). Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. O’Neill has stated: “that Ancient Irish Art originated in Heathen times; that it was the […] €675.00 |
 | O’HART, John. Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. (Limited American Edition) Two volumes. New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1915. 4to. Vol. I: pp. xxiii, 912, [40 coloured armorial plates], 19A; Vol. II: pp. xxiv, 948, 22. Bound in full green morocco, covers framed by gilt fillets with shamrock tools at the corners, the gilt armorial device of the Office of Arms, with the motto ‘Patrum Memores’, […] €1,475.00 |
 | IRELAND – Baptista Boazio] Irlandiae Accurata Descripto 1609 by Baptista Boazio. Finely engraved map of Ireland of considerable interest. Coloured. The towns as usual in red, the woods in green, and the county boundaries in various tints. The north is to the right, and an ornamental border round the map takes the place of graduations for latitude and longitude. Depicted are the provinces, counties, cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, forests, islands, bays, headlands, forts, castles, ecclesiastical centres, and clans with their location. There are two ships, a fisherman in a boat and three monsters on the seas. Royal coat of arms and several cartouches with title, description, glossary, and scale. Dublin: De Burca, 1990. Size 810mm x 620mm. In fine condition. It bears six decorative cartouches containing long inscriptions. These inform us among other things that the map was ‘diligently collected & partly surveyed by Baptista Boazio’; and there is a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, ending with the naïve rhyme ‘wherin your Highness may distinctly […] €95.00 |
 | The Great Book of Irish Genealogies MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. – Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at […] €635.00 |
 | WARNER, Ferdinando. The History of the Rebellion and Civil-War in Ireland (With map of Ireland) London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, in the Strand, 1767. First edition. 4to. pp. xxiii, [1], 614. With engraved folding map. Contemporary full calf, rebacked in period style with raised bands, gilt rules and ornaments, contrasting morocco letterpiece titled in gilt; original boards with some staining and surface wear. Internally generally clean and crisp. […] €875.00 |
 | BURKE, Rev. William P. History of Clonmel. Illustrated with frontispiece and numerous plates. Waterford: Printed by N. Harvey & Co. for the Clonmel Library Committee, 1907. First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], 523. Contemporary red full morocco with the arms of Clonmel in gilt on both covers within a single gilt fillet border intersected at corners. Spine professionally rebacked. Minor wear to covers. […] €575.00 |
 | CARLETON, William. Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. Portrait frontispiece. Four volumes. 914 London: J.M. Dent, 1896. Original olive-green cloth. Title in gilt on spines. Occasional light foxing. Minor wear to covers, otherwise a good set. William Carleton (1794-1869) was born in Prillisk, County Tyrone, one of fourteen children of a tenant farmer. He went to Dublin and besides his novels, he also […] €250.00 |
 | CAUSSIN, Nicholas. The Holy Court, being a comprehensive system of Moral Maxims, Pious Reflections, and Historic Examples. IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY DUBLIN BINDING Forming in itself a Complete Library of Rational Entertainment, Catholic Devotion, and Christian Knowledge. In five parts. Originally written in French by the learned and pious Nichlaus Caussin, of the Society of Jesus, and translated into English by Sir Thomas Hawkins and others. Amended and corrected from the old […] €1,250.00 |
 | CROWE, E.E. To-Day in Ireland (First edition) Three volumes. London: Printed for Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. pp. (1) [ii], 291, (2) [ii], 319, (3) [ii], 305. Bound in contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title and volume number in gilt on double maroon morocco labels on elaborate gilt decorated spine. With the armorial bookplates of Richard Brinsley Sheridan on front pastedowns. […] €575.00 |
 | SOMERVILLE, E. OE. & ROSS, Violet Martin. The Hitchcock Edition of Somerville and Ross (Signed limited edition) With a forward by Harry Worcester Smith. Sporting Works: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.; Further Experience of an Irish R.M.; In Mr. Knox’s Country; Dan Russell the Fox; All on the Irish Shore; Wheel Tracts; and Irish Memories. Illustrated by Drawings by E. OE. Somerville and Photographs. Seven volumes. New York: Privately Printed by […] €950.00 |
 | ARCHER, Lieutenant Joseph. Statistical Survey of the County Dublin, with Observations on the Means of Improvement; Drawn up for the Consideration, and by order, of The Dublin Society. With folding map of the County of Dublin. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry, 1801. Medium octavo. pp. ix, [2], 12-13, [8], 276, [7 (index)]. Modern quarter black morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge trimmed. From the library of A. Conroy with his neat stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. Rare. The Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731 […] €365.00 |
 | KIMBER, Edward. The Peerage of Ireland. A Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Peers of that Kingdom; their descents, collateral branches, births, marriages and issue … together with the paternal coats of arms, crests, supporters and mottoes. Also complete lists of the baronets, extinct peers and Chief Governors of Ireland. Some Account of the Ancient Kings. Illustrated with 141 engraved coats of arms. Two volumes. London: Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House in Piccadilly … and Johnson and Davenport in Pater-noster, 1768. pp. (1) [cxlii], 145, (2) [ii], 248. Contemporary full calf. From the library of Michael Smith Esq. and Rev. George Edm. Cotter with their armorial bookplates at front. Spines […] €875.00 |
 | HUNTER, Robert. The Racing Calendar for the Year 1826. Volume the Thirty-seventh. Dublin: Printed for the Proprietor by James Daly, and Sold at the Publisher’s Office, No. 2, North Cumberland-street, 1827. 12mo. pp. li, [1], 135, [1]. Contemporary full red morocco elaborately tooled in gilt. ‘John Mac Donnell Esq. / Steward of the / Turf Club’ in gilt on upper cover. Light wear to spine. All edges […] €575.00 |
 | O’MADDEN, Patrick L. Cruach Phádraic St. Patrick’s Holy Mountain O’MADDEN, Patrick L. Cruach Phádraic St. Patrick’s Holy Mountain. Illustrated. 143 Dublin: Printed for the Author at the Sign of the Three Candles in Fleet Street, [1929]. First and only edition. 185 x 125mm., pp. 48. Pictorial wrappers. Covers a little dusty and edges frayed as usual. A very good copy. “”From Aghagower Patrick went […] €75.00 |
 | SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan with A Short Account of His Life by G.G.S. Engraved frontispieces and title-pages. Two volumes. London: Bagster, 1902. pp. (1) x, 398, (2) v, 416. Titles in red and black. Armorial bookplate of George Saville. Bound by Root & Son??Half red morocco on marbled boards. T.e.g. Fine. One of the great figures of eighteenth-century Irish literature and theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was born […] €275.00 |
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