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1642221282London: Printed by G.M. for W. Bladen: And are to be sold by R. Royston 1642. xii 177p. last two pages misnumbered as 177 & 179 printed 12mo with smallpoint sidebars all edges sprinkled red; front blank has a repaired tear at top corner 1.5 inches repair tissue applied to verso this blank filled with contemporary ink notes minuscule sepia nib; several lines struck through ownership signature verso of terminal leaf Jeremiah Harmon aesthete collector &c: 1763-1844. Find some smudging scattered throughout text a small perforation at p5/6 affecting sidebar an otherwise very good copy of the second edition in well-preserved and expert late 19thC polished calf with five double ruled bands and red leather label gilt date at the foot. Atherton was born 1598 in Somerset and attended Oxford. He was appointed in 1630 as Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. In 1640 he was accused of engaging in "buggery" with his steward John Childe and the two were hanged in December of 1640. According to Rictor Norton's "Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook" they were the second such pair to have been hanged as a couple in England. This work while not dealing directly with the accusations or the trial is a contemporary account of the bishop's final days. It includes Atherton's letter to his wife and a sermon preached at his burial. In 1710 the author Bernard published another book in which he exposed several legal proceedings and conflicts between Atherton and Catholic lawyers which may have led to a conspiracy to remove him. Noted in Wing B2015. Printed by G.M. for W. Bladen: And are to be sold by R. Royston unknown books
19741291960West Kingston: Donald M. Grant 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small quarto; VG/VG; light purple spine with red text; jacket has slight sunning; boards are strong; textblock is clean; pp 149; deluxe edition one of 3000 unnumbered copies. 1291960. Full-priced Rockville. Donald M. Grant hardcover books
1923227124London Chapman and Dodd Limited 1923. 1923. First edition. 8vo. Original dark green cloth with paper label on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped; a few small nicks. No signatures or bookplates. No foxing. Uncommon thus. Fresh tight very good-fine. 256 pages. Author's real name was Darrell Figgis 1882-1925 Irish author and Sinn Fein activist and politician. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. London, Chapman and Dodd, Limited, 1923. hardcover books
1888264047London: S. Lee 1888. hardcover. very good. 58pp. small 8vo gilt-decorated full vellum; top spine chipped lightly rubbed and dust soiled. London: S. Lee Reprinted 1888. A very good copy.<br/><br/> A bawdy tale of a young woman gone wrong.<br/><br/> S. Lee unknown books
2143glsNew York: The Women’s Press n.d. Narrow quarto hardcover green cloth-backed green textured boards gilt letters 157 pp. Good with light rubbing to edges cello tape repair to Page 34. Ephemera laid-in. The Women’s Press, n.d. hardcover books
1985UCOUVER00AFSt. Martin's 1985. Very Good. Courtney Nicholas. The Very Best of British. Ireland Illustrator John. NY: St. Martin's 1985. 158pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with slightly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with slightly rubbed edges. St. Martin's hardcover books
1983155973London Sydney Auckland Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton 1983. Octavo First edition. A collection of eight supernatural stories for young readers. Reginald 26306. Publisher's review slip laid in. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. A very nice copy of a book more often found in lesser condition; most copies were sold to public libraries. #155973 Hodder and Stoughton unknown books
189737389<p>Dublin: Hodges Figgis and Co. 1897. 112 pp. b/w line ills.and halftone photo plates. Original wrappers but chipped and tape repaired. Text clean</p> Hodges, Figgis, and Co. books
200939465London: Lorenz Books 2009. 4to. 256 pp. b/w and color photos throughout. <br /><br />Title says it all. Fine condition in dust jacket. Lorenz Books books
1980WRCLIT78410New York: George Braziller 1980. Small quarto. Boards. Photographs by Mike Bunn. Biographies. First US edition. Former owner's name & date and sticker residue on front free endsheet front inner hinge shaken and creased upper foretip bumped but a good reading copy in dust jacket with a v-shaped loss on upper panel near crown of spine. George Braziller hardcover books
182715612London: J. L. Cox Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society . for Parbury Allen & Co Publishers to the Society. To be had also at Messrs. Dondey Dupre and Son's Paris Booksellers to the Society on the Continent 1827. First Edition. Boards. Very Good. First Edition. 4 vii-x 2 vii-xxiii 1-534 537-540 537-540 541-548 537t-548t 549-640 pages. BOUND WITH 1824 Membership listing London: G. Schulze 10 11-32 pages. BOUND WITH 1827 Membership listing London: J. L. Cox 32 pages. BOUND WITH "Regulations for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.1827" London: J.L. Cox 12 pages. 4to 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. All bound in leather boards expertly rebacked saving the spine labels original boards and endpapers. Ex-library Ames Library of South Asia properly deaccessioned. Previous owner bookplate of Richard Strachey of Ashwick Grove. Bright and clean internally with occasional library markings. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Boards. The first of only three volumes issued under this title from 1827-1834. The Royal Asiatic Society separately published the "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland" beginning in 1834 and continuing to this day.<br/><br/>In addition to the scientific articles offered in this volume bound in are two membership directories 1824 and 1827 and the regulations of the society from 1827 providing an excellent snapshot into the beginnings of the Society. All plates called for are present.<br/><br/>"The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society has been published by the Society since 1834 and is distinguished not only by its longevity but also by its consistency in providing a forum for scholarly articles of the highest quality on South Asia the Middle East together with North Africa and Ethiopia Central Asia East Asia and South-East Asia. It publishes articles on history archaeology literature language religion and art and reviews of books in these fields." Official statement on journal site. J. L. Cox, Printer to the Royal Asiatic Society, ... for Parbury, Allen & Co, Publishers to the Society,. To be had also at Mess 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
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
013847London: 1832: Joseph Thomas Birchin Lane Book. Fine. Hardcover. 'Represented at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Saturday April 2 1796 as a Supposed Newly-Discovered Drama of Shakespeare' -------- Rebound in modern polished leather to matching marbled boards New endpapers; 6 spine bands with black/gilt title band. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall 22 cm; xv 58 pages. Folded frontispiece of facsimile of first page of the forgery. Originally published in wraps. First Edition. No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Expected light toning of text. ---------- Subjects Vortigern Drama; Shakespeare William; Literary forgeries and mystifications; Early works to 1800; Tragedies. ------ Brief History William Henry Ireland 1775-1835 was an English forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays. He is less well known as a poet writer of gothic novels and histories. ------ His father Samuel Ireland was a successful publisher of travelogues collector of antiquities and collector of Shakespearian plays and relics. With no in the hand of Shakespeare documents. forgery would fill this void. ----- William Henry also became a collector of books. In many later recollections Ireland described his fascination with the works and the glorious death of the forger Thomas Chatterton and probably knew the Ossian poems of James Macpherson. When he was apprenticed to a mortgage lawyer Ireland began to experiment with blank genuinely old papers and forged signatures on them. Eventually he forged several documents until he was ready to present them to his father. ------- In December 1794 William told his father that he had discovered a cache of old documents belonging to an acquaintance who wanted to remain unnamed and that one of them was a deed with a signature of Shakespeare in it. He gave the document which he had of course made himself to his overjoyed father who had been looking for just that kind of signature for years. ----- Ireland first forged a letter that he claimed was written by Shakespeare expressing gratitude towards the Earl of Southampton for his patronage. ----- Ireland went on to make more findings a promissory note a written declaration of Protestant faith letters to Anne Hathaway with a lock of hair attached and to Queen Elizabeth all supposedly in Shakespeare's hand. He claimed that all came from the chest of the anonymous friend. He 'found' books with Shakespeare's notes in the margins and 'original' manuscripts for Hamlet and King Lear. The experts of the day authenticated them all. ----- On 24 December 1795 Samuel Ireland published his own book about the papers a lavishly illustrated and expensively produced set of facsimiles and transcriptions of the papers called Miscellaneous Papers and Legal Instruments under the Hand and Seal of William Shakespeare the book bears the publication date 1796. More people took interest in the matter and the plot began to unravel. ------- In 1795 Ireland became bolder and produced a whole new play Vortigern and Rowena. After extensive negotiations Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan acquired rights for the first production of the play at London's Drury Lane Theatre for £300 and a promise of half of all profits to the Irelands. ------- Sheridan and John Philip Kemble actor and manager of Drury Lane Theatre later claimed he had serious doubts about its authenticity; he also suggested that the play appear on April Fool's Day though Samuel Ireland objected and the play was moved to the next day. -------- Although the Shakespeare papers had prominent believers including James Boswell sceptics had questioned their authenticity from the beginning and as the premiere of Vortigern approached the press was filled with arguments over whether the papers were genuine or forgeries. -------- The play had only one performance and was not revived until 2008. wiki. Joseph Thomas, Birchin Lane Hardcover books
196547392Dublin:: National Gallery of Ireland. Near Fine. 1965. Paperback. First edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . National Gallery of Ireland, paperback books
185930296New York: S. A. Rollo & Co 1859. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xviii 13- 531 1; inserted color lithograph frontispiece and title-p. double-page lithograph map 69 wood-engraved plates; original pictorial brown cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; the whole a little dull two signatures extended else very good. Smith American Travellers Abroad I-2: "Big and gaudy this book epitomizes the type of traveler and travel caricatured in Around the World in Eighty Days." <br/><br/> S. A. Rollo & Co 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
1889104876London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co 1889. Robert Louis Stevenson's first edition copy of the writings of one of his favorite prose writers William Hazlitt. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel botanical gilt vignette to the front panel tissue-guarded frontispiece of Hazlitt. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Robert Louis Stevenson on the half-title page "To Robert Louis Stevenson Esq with Alex Ireland's cordial regards & remembrances Southport 9 Leicester St. October 2 1889." With Stevenson's Vailima bookplate to the pastedown which is singed by Stevensons stepdaughter Isobel Strong. In very good condition. An exceptional presentation. A great admirer of Hazlitt's prose style Steveson frequently discussed with friedns his interest in writing Hazlitt's biography. But it is in his Walking Tours that Stevenson gives his warmest expression of his admiration for the great romantic essayist: "I should wish to quote more for though we are mighty fine fellows noawadays we cannot write like Hazlitt. And Hazlitt's essays would be a capital pocket-book on such a journey" Stevensonia 92. Frederick Warne and Co hardcover 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
