They address then-pressing topics: tariffs, protectionism, development of domestic industry, and European foreign policy.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 49095; Clarkin, Mathew Carey Bibliography, 1133. Recent quarter tan cloth with paper sides in the style of the era. Ex-library with stamp on title-page; paper brittle and age-toned. One page torn and repaired.

An Englishman through and through, Carr seems sincerely to have liked Ireland and the Irish he met. His book is full of extended and very readable detail — some original, much quoted — on (e.g.) language matters and Irish poetry, Irish agriculture and industry, Irish management of charities, Irish “sights” and ruins, Irish marriage cust marriage customs — and the implications of a potato-based diet.

Provenance: Contemporary inked inscription reading “Tho.s Wynne.”

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 10096. On Carr, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; leather moderately rubbed, joints cracking and spine label dimmed. Title-page with owner's name as described above; title-page and one other stamped. Pages, except for central leaves, with waterstaining in lower margins; two pages with smeared spots of ink. (11960)

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Provenance: Pencilled note on endpaper, “From Ralph E. McCoy’s Library”; McCoy, emeritus Dean of Libraries at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, published widely on the First Amendment freedoms.

•  Howes C336; Sabin 12379; Shaw & Shoemaker 17193. Later quarter plain brown paper over contemporary tan paper–covered sides; edges and corners rubbed. Front free endpaper (modern) with pencilled note of McCoy’s ownership; front fly-leaf with pencilled gift inscription dated 1849. Offsetting and foxing throughout. A very sound copy.

The Beauties and Excellencies of True Religion (p. [49]–76) has a sectional title-page.

Uncommon: OCLC locates only three copies.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 17237; Doggett 108.   Publisher's paper shelfback with green paper–covered boards — a delicate binding; paper of spine perished, exposing sewing, and binding stained with age. Interior: paper good and quite clean.  (23255)

Provenance:  First in the University of Miami Library, deacessioned; then in the library of Robert Chamberlain and later in that of Franz V. Scholes, both noted scholars of the Yucatán. Their signatures are on the front free endpaper and their notes are penciled in the margins of many pages.

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•  ESTC W24802; Evans 33532. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding abraded with leather cracking over the spine, spine label lettering rubbed. Pages age-toned, with some spots of foxing.

Cruden, bookseller to Queen Caroline, dedicated his initial publication of his concordance to her. Unfortunately, she died two weeks later, and profits from the sale of the volume did not meet the author’s expectations; Cruden’s disappointment (and bouts of eccentric behavior) regardless, the DNB stresses that “his biblical labours have justly made his name a household word among the English-speaking peoples.”

The frontispiece portrait of the author was engraved by William Kneass.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 10233. On Cruden, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, V, 249–51. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; worn and abraded, leather cracking over spine. Front pastedown and free endpaper (partially separated) with stray pencil marks. Varying degrees of offsetting and spotting. One piece of dried plant material laid in.