HOWARD, Gorges Edmond. A Treatise of the Exchequer and Revenue of Ireland. By G. E. Howard, Esq. Most humbly inscribed, To the Treasurer, Chancellor, Lord Chief Baron, and the rest of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.

In two volumes Dublin: Husband, for E. Lynch, No. 6, Skinner-Row, 1776. Quarto. pp. (1) [8], lxiii, 325, (2) [4], 436, [1 (Errata)]. Modern mustard cloth, title in gilt on green morocco labels on spines. A very good set. Rare.
ESTC T86142. Goldsmiths‘-Kress no. 11472.

Gorges Edmond Howard (1715-1786) poet and architect, dramatic, legal, and political writer was born in Coleraine and educated at Thomas Sheridan‘s school in Dublin. He entered the army, and afterwards became an attorney. He acted as solicitor to Catholic Committee and was regarded as a Protestant champion of Catholic Emancipation. Howard secured a lucrative business as a solicitor and land agent, and wrote on the law, created literary works and published at his own expense. He was the intimate friend of Henry Brooke but he failed to achieve notability as a writer and he was satirised by Robert Jephson for his unsolicited productivity. Howard was active in suggesting improvements in Dublin, having some skill as an architect. The freedom of the city was conferred on him in 1766. His daughter Anne married her second cousin, Hamilton Gorges, and started a branch of the Gorges family that continued to use ―Howard‖ as their middle name. The four page list of subscribers includes: Edmund Burke, Earl of Bellamont, Earl of Charlemont, Hercules Langrishe, Richard Musgrave, Charles O‘Connor, Esq., Theobald Wolfe, etc.

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