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1815401078Dublin : Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1815. 1st edition. Hardcover. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked leatherette. Spine worn; spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 465 pp. 10 cm. Subjects; Church of Ireland Prayers ; Early works to 1800. Bible. English. Psalms ; Music. Devotional literature. Dublin : Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge hardcover
1883BELeIREL13London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1883. 1883. 8vo. pp. xv 7 477 1. 2 mounted plates & 1 folding facsimile letter. with half-title. original cloth with morocco-grained paper spine top edge gilt others uncut hinges cracked & weak spine rubbed corners frayed. Third Edition enlarged to include two hundred additional pages of quotations. Ireland's work presents ".in chronological order the summed-up testimonies of the most notable Book-Lovers on the subject of books and the Habit and Love of Reading." Preface The writers' quoted include Plato Socrates Bacon Milton Swift Chaucer Byron Pope Rousseau Hugo Whitman Trollope Machiavelli Carlyle &c. Hardcover. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1883. Hardcover
1893mon0003318175Bell & Bradfute 1893T. hardcover. Good. . Bell & Bradfute hardcover
185347542London and New York. (1853). VIII, 324 Seiten und 27 (von 36) Stahlstichtafeln. Mit sehr zahlreichen Illustrationen u. Ansichten im Text. Halbleder-Einband mit reicher Rückenvergoldung (Einband an den Kanten stärker berieben. Papier vereinzelt etwas fleckig) 32x24 cm
19005043<p>Boston: Small Maynard and Co. 1900. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover 141 pp. INSCRIBED and signed by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper. Spine moderately sunned minor wear to spinal extremities still a very goodk copy. No dust jacket. <br /><br /></p> Small, Maynard and Co. hardcover
188436317London Remington & Co 1884 hardcover. Elliott E. Mills wrote other pseudonymous books including a 1905 futurist fantasy of 2005 and other speculative works on politics and culture. -- This book is a discussion among unnamed men for example "W--myss" of the Orange and papists in Ireland. -- Hardcover flexible cloth-covered boards. FAIR-ONLY condition cover stained and darkened cover nearly detached as are pages; outer pages stained. Complete; we list this lesser copy because it is scarce. Remington & Co hardcover
184436456London Richard Bentley 1844 hardcover. The author was an English land agent responsible for estates in Ireland; his 30 years of visits led him to blame "Irish agricultural backwardness" on the Irish estate managers Joel Mokyr. -- 304 pages plus 48 pages publisher's ads dated Jan. 1844. -- Hardcover original olive green publisher's cloth with spine lettering quite bright and pages clean. Condition: good-only cover separated from text block; 1-inch cloth tear at hinge a few tiny cloth tears corners lightly worn. Richard Bentley hardcover
1887R103983Dublin, Royal Irish Academy 1887 vi + pp. 35-957 (as in other known copies the pages 1 to 34 containing "Irish lexicography an introductory lecture" are missing, it was published separately), 23cm., bound in hardcover (marbled boards, spine in black cloth), in the "Todd Lecture Series" volume 2, text clean except for some very rare occasional foxing, stamp on first blanco endpaper, good condition, [Introduction in English, Text edition in Irish, followed by the translation in English, and furthermore detailed glossary (pp.515-950) & index of names], R103983
1893467991 vol. in-12 reliure de l'époque demi-basane rouge, Paul Ollendorff, 1893, 347 pp.
1854701729Dublin: James Duffy 1854. A lively and beloved portrait of rural Ireland Carletons "Tales and Sketches" blended sharp humor and affectionate storytelling with wonderful illustrations by Phiz to create a more modern and human portrait of the Irish for the 19th century world. This handsome edition is bound in three-quarter burgundy leather over light reddish-brown linen cloth. Gilt floral decorations on spine. Decorative marbled endpapers. Front and rear hinges heavily worn both appear to have been repaired at some point as both free endpapers very tight to binding. Some general wear to edges chipping to spine. Pages very clean and bright. Eight black and white illustrations by Phiz. 5.5 x 8.75 inches with 393 pages. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Phiz. James Duffy Hardcover
1802TE361061802 1 folded (37.5 x 44 cm) engraved map (‘’l’Irlande par J.D. Barbié du Bocage’’). A beautiful map of Ireland, with in the left upper corner ‘’Plan des Lacs de Killarney’’ and in the lower right corner ‘’Tour danoise’’ with some ruins.
1802TE361051802 pp. 373-383, 1 folded (28.5 x 20 cm) engraved plate (‘’Vue occidentale de la Chaussée des Géans, et des Caps voisins’’), disbound (no covers). This is the chapter on Ireland’s antiquities from this 4 volume work, and includes the very fine folded engraved plate of the Giants Causeway.
1882W120941Liège, Vaillant-Carmanne 1882 13pp. + 2 planches hors-texte (dont une dépliante), avec "Hommage de l'auteur", 25cm., extrait des "Annales de la Société géologque de Belgique", peu de rousseurs, brochure originale (dos renforcé), good condition, W120941
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
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
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
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
1807AQ19710London: Printed for William Miller 1807. xxiv 295 9pp. With a half-title a hand-coloured engraved folding frontispiece and four final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards printed paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Hinges exposed else internally clean and crisp. The anonymous anecdotes and satirical verse of the notorious forger of Shakespearean documents William Henry Ireland 1775-1835. Composed in homage to German humanist Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools Basel 1494 The modern ship of fools savagely attacks the types of people and objects the author disdains most including Foolish Unprofitable Books. Jackson p.314. First edition. 8vo. Printed for William Miller hardcover
1807023070Philadelphia: For C. And A. Conrad and Co 1807. First American Edition. Small Octavo. 295pp. First translated into English by Alexander Barclay in 1508. Stultifera Navis was originally the work of Sebastian Brant a Dutchman who composed the book in his native language. It was then translated into Latin by Jame Locherm a disciple of Brant's then translated into French by an unknown hand. The author or editor of this edition states that he merely copied a part of Barclay's title page and inserted the running heads of many of his section. He did not want to be branded with the stigma of plagiarism when his work is entirely original. Though he was a forger of Shakespearean letters and papers. Bound in full calf handsomely rebacked to style black leather spine label and rules in gilt endpapers with foxing and an occasional spots of foxing or staining to leaves. From the library of Ezera Wilkinson whose library sold at auction in 1882 with a note written by him on the front end sheets "Steal not this book." A very good copy. For C. And A. Conrad and Co unknown
1807867F47London: William Miller 1807 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 6.5" by 4.5". John Augustus Atkinson. The first edition of William Henry Ireland's reinterpretation of the medieval German allegorical poem. The first edition of Shakespearian forger William Henry Ireland's version of Sebastian Brant's satirical allegory.Illustrated with a folding hand coloured frontispiece by English artist John Augustus Atkinson and a further vignette illustration to the title page.A smart first edition from the forger of would-be Shakespearean documents and plays known also for his gothic novels.Ireland reinterprets Brant's late fifteenth century work. Rebacked in quarter morocco with half calf original boards laid down. Significant rubbing to boards. Hinges strained but firmly held. Lacking the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned with spotting to title page and the odd light handling mark. Very Good William Miller hardcover
189500006125New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1895 372 pages small missing piece on page 365 boards mildly soiled. Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover
183420656Eyre & Spottiswoode - Public Record Commission 1834. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth spined boards G. 2 volumes xxiv572pp xxvi596pp 3 large folding maps of Ireland boards rubbed slight browning to the paper Ex-Library with bookplates & stamps text block clean hinges weak common with these heavy volumes a fair set. Transcriptions of the surviving Parliamentary & Royal papers relating to Ireland from the reign of Henry VIII. A total of 448 are transcribed. Also contains a vocabulary of obsolete Irish words. Uncommon. Eyre & Spottiswoode - Public Record Commission hardcover
184534117London Chapman and Hall 1845 First Edition. hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated by Phiz title page. -- Hardcover dark green with elaborate gilt spine and front-cover decoration all-edges-gilt discreet vintage seller label. Condition: good spine color change but still bright; hinge cracked; one plate foxed others and some pages more lightly; previous seller pencilled notes. -- Overall an attractive book by this 19th century author born in Dublin; this novel includes episode of cholera one engraving shows a coffin carried down a hill. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1811AQ11089Dublin: Printed for H. Fitzpatrick 1811. Volume one all published. 4 xcvi 2 415pp 1 x. Uncut an unsophisticated copy in original publisher's blue paper backed green paper boards printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed with loss to spine lettering-piece chipped boards slightly sunned and soiled corners bumped. Sporadic foxing throughout slight marginal loss to N2 near contemporary ink inscription to head of title. Henry Grattan 1746-1820 Irish nationalist and member of the Irish House of Commons who campaigned for the legislative freedom of the Irish Parliament and opposed the Act of Union of 1800. From early age Grattan honed his natural eloquence through the study of the orators of classical antiquity thus providing himself with a singular talent for public speaking that would be feted by his contemporaries and galvanise his position as a leading figure in the politics of Ireland - causing whig statesman Charles James Fox to dub him the 'Irish Demosthenes' . First edition. 8vo. Printed for H. Fitzpatrick hardcover