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1795013848London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton 1795. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. An important travalogue describing the locations and views along the River Avon from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Twekesbury. ----------- The author and engraver began life as a weaver in Spitalfields London but soon took to dealing in prints and drawings and devoted his leisure to teaching himself drawing etching and engraving. He made sufficient progress to obtain a medal from the Society of Arts in 1760. "his taste for collecting books pictures and curiosities gradually became an all-absorbing passion and his methods exposed him at times to censure." DNB. ----------- Burgundy full-leather hardcover with tooled and gilt double fillet borders inner dentelles lettered title on black label in gilt with tooled and gilt floral decoration in five bands new endpages. Rebound No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Text lightly toned and minimal offset from the plates --------- Aquatint extra title 29 aquatint plates 2 portraits map of the course of the Avon text engravings. 8vo; 23.5 cm 9.25 inches tall; v-xviii -284. First Edition. Two plates mis-inserted plate p243 at p250 and plate p250 at p253 All plates.present. ----------- A bit of trivia about the author. ---------- Samuel Ireland was a fervent admirer of William Shakespeare and in 1793 when preparing his "Picturesque Views of the Avon" he took his son with him to Stratford-upon-Avon to examine carefully all the sights associated with the dramatist. The father recorded many local traditions which he accepted as true including those concocted for his benefit according to Sidney Lee by John Jordan a Stratford poet who was his chief guide throughout his visit. ------------ In his pursuit of information about Shakespeare Ireland learned from some of the oldest inhabitants that manuscripts had been moved from Shakespeare's residence at New Place to Clopton House at the time of the Stratford fire. To Clopton House he went where he learned from the tenant that the manuscripts he was seeking had been destroyed only a week before. His disappointment was extreme. 'My God! Sir you are not aware of the loss which the world has sustained. Would to heaven I had arrived sooner!' ------Today he is best remembered today as the chief victim of the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries created by his son William Henry Ireland. But alas that is a tale for another day. ----------- Ref English Short Title Catalog t79991; Abbey Scenery 427. Cox III182. Upcott 1277; WiKI; DNB ------- Subjects Avon River; Leicestershire-Gloucestershire England Description and travel; Early works to 1800 England . R. Faulder and T. Egerton Hardcover books
178810357London: Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall 1788. Etching and aquatint with hand-colour. Lovely contemporary colour. As usual text line is attached on verso of sheet. In excellent condition. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 14 5/8 x 20 1/4 inches. A charming landscape by Samuel Ireland the engraver and collector connected with the infamous Shakespeare forgeries.<br/> <br/>Ireland was a minor engraver and publisher who worked in London at the close of the eighteenth century. He was an avid art and manuscript collector and many of the works that he engraved and published were after pieces found in his own collection. This romantic continental view is after a painting by David Tenier which was in Ireland's collection at the time. This image operates as both an example of the picturesque tradition in eighteenth century landscape prints and as an advertisement and promotion of Ireland's celebrated collection. With this image Ireland presents himself as both a serious engraver and a respected collector. Unfortunately today Ireland is better remembered for his involvement in the Shakespeare forgeries than for his evocative prints. Over a period of many years Ireland's son William Henry sold his father a series of forged manuscripts which he claimed to be written in Shakespeare's hand. Ireland who willingly trusted his son added these forgeries to his collection and presented them in an exhibition to the literary community who accepted them as genuine. The charade progressed so far that an invented play entitled 'Vortigern' which William Henry had written and presented as a missing work by Shakespeare was performed at Sheridan's Drury Lane theatre by some of the leading actors of the age. When the hoax was eventually discovered Ireland's reputation was ruined and his son was disgraced. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints.<br/> <br/>Dictionary of National Biography; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. Published by Molteno & Co. No. 132, Pall Mall unknown books
102993London: Printed by C. Clarke Published by T. Egerton 1801-2. 2 vols. 8vo xvi 209; iv 258 pp. recent full crimson morocco antique spines decorated and lettered in gilt covers gilt-ruled in an ivy pattern. Two engraved maps & two emblematic half-titles 52 topographic plates all aquatints printed in sepia; numerous woodcuts in text. Predictable offsetting minute puncture due to paper flaw in plate of Marlow Bridge opp. p. 195 in Vol. I; a beautiful set in a superb binding. § Third Edition; the first in 1792 and the second in 1799. The second in the fine series of pictorial tours issued by the entrepreneurial author artist and engraver who is today remembered primarily -- alas -- as the father and first victim of Shakespeare-forger William Henry Ireland. Although there are some provocative discrepancies between details of this set and the collation of the first edition in the Abbey Catalogue the only significant alteration between editions seems to have been the replacement of the “East View of Staines Old Bridge.†The gossipy text is a lot of fun. Abbey Scenery. 430. Cox III p. 180. Upcott English Topography CXLIII Vol. III pp. 768-770. Printed by C. Clarke unknown books
179215107London: T. & J. Egerton 1792. 4to 25 cm 9.8". 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p. xvi 209 3 pp.; 1 map 27 plts. illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p. viii incl. t.-p. 258 4 pp.; 1 map 25 plts. illus. <br><br>First edition of Ireland's guidebook to the architectural botanical artistic and historical pleasures to be found along the Thames featuring assorted poetical digressions as well as descriptions of the splendor of Blenheim Castle and other castles and manors the disrepair of London Bridge and paintings by Rubens and Holbein. The two volumes are copiously illustrated with 52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland 2 maps and a number of in-text cuts. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T2691; Abbey Scenery 430. Period-style quarter calf over marbled papercovered sides spines with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Versos only of half-titles title-pages and a few other leaves stamped by a now-defunct institution. Plates lightly to moderately spotted with some instances of light offsetting to pages around plates. Pages faintly age-toned with edges untrimmed; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away not touching text. This supplies both handsome interesting pictures and good now quaint reading. T. & J. Egerton hardcover books
1985208680London: Gay Men's Press 1985. Paperback. 127p. very good second impression trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay Men's Press paperback books
198431620London: Gay Men's Press 1984. Paperback. 127p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Gay Men's Press paperback books
181431681London: R. S. Kirby 1814. First edition 8vo pp. x 4 212; engraved frontispiece title-p. printed in red and black; contemporary paper-covered boards rebacked in tan calf blindstamped title on spine; edges rubbed corners worn; good and sound. A satirical poem about the mania of print collecting. <br/><br/> R. S. Kirby hardcover books
1832250863London: Joseph Thomas 1832. paperback. very good. With facsimile bound in before the title page. xv 58pp. thin 8vo later wrappers; uncut wrappers chipped. London: Joseph Thomas 1832. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Represented at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Saturday April 2 1796 As a Supposed Newly-Discovered Drama of Shakespeare<br/><br/> Joseph Thomas unknown books
1824007952London: HardingTriphookand Lepard 1824. SCARCE. Attributed to William Henry Ireland. With half-title in Vol. 1. Printed by S.and R. Bentley Dorset Street. Frontispiece portrait Vol. 1. In contemporary signed fine binding by Riviere and Son of red morocco the backs ornately gilt with gilt lettering on red and black morocco labels wide ornate gilt dentelles dark blue paper end pages top edges gilt. Very Good the covers lightly soiled bottom edge of half-title Vol. I unevenly cut bottom corner bumps. A quite handsome set. . First Edition. Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harding,Triphook,and Lepard, Hardcover books
1850240938London: C.H. Clarke 1850. 2 382 pp. Title leaf a cancel. 1 vols. 12mo. Quarter black morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. 2 382 pp. Title leaf a cancel. 1 vols. 12mo. Pagination is the same as the publisher's RIZZIO; OR SCENES IN EUROPE DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. by the late Mr. Ireland. Edited by G. P. R. James L. Clarke n.d. which itself was a reprint of the 1849 triple decker of the same title published by Newby. Why Ireland's name was removed from the title page of Clarke's reissue is a mystery - but OCLC locates no other copies which match our title page. OCLC: 54440488 variant title C.H. Clarke unknown books
1807251468London: Miller 1807. First. hardcover. very good. Folding hand-colored frontispiece by John Augustus Atkinson engraving on title page 295pp. untrimmed 12mo rebound in brown cloth brown leather labels on spine. First Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> William Henry Ireland was author of the forged manuscripts attributed to William Shakespeare. Halkett & Laing IV p.102. Lowndes II p.1164.<br/><br/> Miller unknown books
180794093London: Miller 1807. First Edition. hardcover. very good. Folding hand-colored frontispiece by John Augustus Atkinson engraving on title page 295pp. 18mo modern 3/4 calf; dampstained in some lower margins. London: William Miller 1807. Very good .<br/><br/> William Henry Ireland was author of the forged manuscripts attributed to William Shakespeare. Halkett & Laing IV p.102. Lowndes II p.1164.<br/><br/> Miller unknown books
18141340544London: Printed for R.S. Kirby 1814. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; missing spine and front panel as is; grayish rear board; rear shows rubbed exterior; worn edges; no jacket; text block exterior edges show age toning; deckled edges; missing endpapers; first few pages loosened but present; title page slightly foxed; previous owner's bookplate adhered to verso of title page; slight foxing to some interior pages; light pencil to rear pastedown; pp 212. Full Title: Chalcographimania; or the Portrait-Collector and Printseller's Chronicle with Infatuations of every Description. A Humorous Poem. In Four Books. With Copious Notes Explanatory. By Satiricus Sculptor Esq. 1340544. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed for R.S. Kirby hardcover books
18073754London: William Miller 1807. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition of the well-known poem after Sebastian Brandt from the infamous Shakespearean forger. Amusing and delightful colored folding frontispiece by John Atkinson and title-page woodcut. 19th century half-red morocco gilt dampstaining along bottom affecting lower margins of contents. Frontispiece with tape repair. Still a very good copy. <br/><br/> William Miller hardcover books
1929159148BOSTON LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY 1929 1929. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH; NO DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. BOSTON, LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, 1929 hardcover books
1910304926New York 1910. 1 page. Old folds. 1 page. Thomas Emmet was an esteemed Doctor who devised the Emmet's operation for repair of tears in the womb and was the nephew of Robert Emmet. He was also a famous autograph and print collector and an ardent advocate of Irish home Rule.<br/><br/>Reading in part: "I thank you for sending me the account about the execution of Robert Emmet. unknown books
47629V.p. v.d. First Edition. Two volumes as described below:<br/><br/>1. Days of Fear. London: John Murray 1928. First Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in white dust jacket lettered in red and green. 175pp. Light wear to jacket extremities including small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of rear panel touching one letter else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Laid in brief autograph note signed on An Bureau um Eolas Stáit / Government Information Bureau letterhead dated November 11 1953 and addressed to one "Mac" transmitting this copy.<br/><br/>2. Days of Fear. New York: Harper Brothers Publishers 1929. First American Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth printed paper spine label dark orange printed dust jacket; 175pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities spine panel a bit faded else Very Good or better. Review copy with rubberstamp to front panel of dustwrapper. The first U.K. and first American editions of Gallagher's diary kept while imprisoned in Mountjoy Jail Dublin in 1920 for his involvement with the militant Irish Volunteers later the Irish Republican Army. The diary provides a near hour-by-hour account of Gallagher's participation in the Dublin Hunger Strike which he personally maintained for nine days. The author survived the strike and his time in prison going on to become a senior state official later dubbed rather unflatteringly the "Irish Dr. Goebbels" for his work as a leading propagandist of the Irish Civil War. Both editions quite scarce in jacket. unknown books
1841319367London: How and Parsons 1841. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout 18 maps and many engravings. xii iv 435; vii 468; viii 511pp. 3 vols. 4to. Bound in full polished tan contemporary calf edges marbled. Nice set. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout 18 maps and many engravings. xii iv 435; vii 468; viii 511pp. 3 vols. 4to. How and Parsons unknown books
200393128Wilmington: Cedar Tree Books Ltd 2003. stiff paper wrappers. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. First edition. Illustrated history of the building of this replica 17th century Dutch sailing vessel which sailed from Sweden to settle Delaware. Cedar Tree Books, Ltd unknown books
176856649London: H. Woodfall J. Fuller G. Woodfall etc. 1768. First edition. With 23 pp of crests illustrated. 210 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Upper board detached else a Fine tight volume. First edition. With 23 pp of crests illustrated. 210 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. H. Woodfall, J. Fuller, G. Woodfall, etc. unknown books
183533188London: Printed for Leigh and Son 1835. Third edition considerably Enlarged and Improved. Folding table frontispiece fore-edge chipped 3 folding maps offsetting large folding handcolored map at back 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches; creased some tears along folds offsetting. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Recent grey paper-backed blue cloth morocco label. Some light wear stamps on title else a very good copy. Third edition considerably Enlarged and Improved. Folding table frontispiece fore-edge chipped 3 folding maps offsetting large folding handcolored map at back 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches; creased some tears along folds offsetting. 1 vols. Sm. 8vo. Kress Catalogue of Economic Literature 28937 Printed for Leigh and Son unknown books
192447768Dublin & Manchester: The Irish Nation Committee / The Equity Press and The Wood Printing Works 1924. First Editions. Bound volume containing: <br/><br/>Éire: The Irish Nation: Forty-one folio issues 45cm bound into a plain blue-gray cloth binding; each issue 8pp; illus. Issues show light wear and toning to extremities with occasional short edge tears and creases to corners; a half-dozen issues with "Subscription Expired - Final Copy" neatly rubber-stamped to upper front wrappers; final issue slightly oversized with edges folded in; publication range written in pen on front endpaper with title and date range in marker to lower front cover; well-preserved Very Good overall. <br/><br/>Sinn Féin. Thirty-three folio issues 53cm bound into a plain blue-gray cloth binding; each issue 8pp; illus. Mild tanning with occasional small nicks and tears to text edges and some minor flaking to same; publication range written in pen on front endpaper with title and date range in marker to lower front cover; dampstain to cloth at upper left corner of rear cover; Very Good overall. Full final year of Éire the official publishing organ of the Irish Republican Party which ran from January 20 1923 - October 25 1924 continuing with its successor publication Sinn Féin. "The Republican party was not unaware of the benefits to be derived from the publication of a newspaper reflecting its view. During its lifetime the organization brought out various weeklies. Éire: The Irish Nation had been started in January 1923 to give the Republican version of events in the closing stages of the Civil War. This proved a boon to the Reorganizing Committee in its efforts to build up the new parety in the summer of 1923. A second party paper Sinn Féin originally appeared as a daily news-sheet during the August 1923 general election campaign; but once the election was over it appeared only weekly. The new party had not been established very long before its leaders eager to counteract the anti-Sinn Féin bias of the three national dailies began planning the publication of a daily paper of their own with national circulation. They failed in their efforts to do this the principal reason being once again lack of capital. The failure of the party here may have indirectly hastened its decline. Control of a national daily would have forced Sinn Féin to spell out its aims and policies in a more realistic and precise fashion.At the end of 1924 Sinn Féin and Éire merged probably for circulation reasons to form a new weekly also with the title Sinn Féin. This paper in turn ceased publication and was replaced by a new weekly An Phoblacht in June 1925" Pynne Peter. The Third Sinn Fein Party: 1923-1926. p.39. Contents reprint the Declaration of Independence of Dail Eireann statements and articles by President Éamon de Valera extensive coverage on the treatment of Irish Republican prisoners and prison conditions last letters of IRA soldiers prior to their executions excerpts from Leaves from a Prison Diary by Proinnsias O'Gallchobhair memorial celebrations for the Easter Uprising and political cartoons by "Fionnbarr." OCLC finds 10 locations with any holdings of Éire U.Kansas Boston Coll. BL Cambridge Univ.College Cork Trinity Coll. Dublin Nat.Univ.Library Ireland Galway Nat.Library of Ireland Memorial Univ. Newfoundland Nanterre-La Contemporaine. Sinn Féin held in 9 locations Hoover Inst. Boston Coll. Wake Forest Murdoch Univ. Nat.Library of Ireland Galway Trinity Coll. Dublin BL Cambridge Nanterre-La Contemporaine. The Irish Nation Committee / The Equity Press and The Wood Printing Works unknown books
183856606London: Longman Orme Brown Green and Longmans 1838. With 19 engravings from drawings by D. M'Clise and T. Creswick. 1 vols. Small 4to. Three-quarter morocco a.e.g. Spine faded lightly rubbed. Very Good. With 19 engravings from drawings by D. M'Clise and T. Creswick. 1 vols. Small 4to. George Sala's Copy. Thte title-page bears the signature and address of George Augustus Sala with a note under the illustrations: "Interesting as marking the height of excellence to which the art of line engraving had attained just before it was deposed by wood engraving and by lithography." Sala a mid-19th century journalist and artist was published in Charles Dickens's Household Words and was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown books
191443765Dublin: Sinn Fein Printing and Publishing Co 1914. First Edition. Large tabloid 46cm.; pictorial self-wrappers; 8pp.; illus. Previous mail fold with subsequent closed tears the longest bisecting entire upper cover with small loss affecting cover map and small portion of text on verso additional minor wear along fore-edge else a Good near-complete and unopened example of a scarce periodical superceding the United Irishman. Issue entirely devoted to the proposed partition the upper cover adorned with a map first issued by the London "Graphic" depicting the "territory proposed to cut away from the remainder of Ireland under the Government's compromise proposals on the Home Rule Bill." Interior articles include a chapter of the serialized novel "One Generation Passeth" by Lily McManus; a short article "Irishwomen and the Proposed Partition"; and an article in Gaelic. All issues quite scarce with just scattered physical holdings in OCLC as of March 2019 and none in the trade. Sinn Fein Printing and Publishing Co unknown books
197544780Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press 1975. First Edition. Octavo 23.25cm; orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xii3268pp; illus. Mottling to pastedowns board edges slightly splayed else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped with gently sunning to spine and modest shelfwear overall. Collection of memories of hundreds of residents in Northern Ireland - moderate radical Catholic and Protestant - taken by Van Voris after the explosive period in Ulster since 1968. "There are statements by those who make the bombs and those injured by them by priests and ministers the powerful and the poor" from front flap. University of Massachusetts Press unknown books
