LODGE, John Esq. The Peerage of Ireland, or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom (The scarce best edition)

With engravings of their paternal Coats of Arms. Collected from the Public Records; authentic Manuscripts; approved Historians; well-attested Pedigrees; and personal Information. Revised, enlarged and continued to the present time by Mervyn Archdall, Rector of Slane. With list of subscribers. Seven volumes. Dublin: James Moore, 45 College Green, 1789. Quarter grey linen on grey on grey paper boards, title on printed labels on spines. Fading to spines, otherwise a very good set. Rare.
Mervyn Archdall is to Lodge, what Harris was to Ware, in as much as he revised and greatly expanded the work from four to seven volumes taking four years to complete his edition. Many of Lodge’s valuable notes were left in cipher, and the credit for decoding them lies with Mrs. Archdall, a remarkable woman, who enabled her husband to carry out his extension of this work.
Mr. Rowley Lascelles in his compilation of the Liber Munerum drew largely from John Lodge’s collection of manuscripts of the Patent and Close Rolls.

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