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The Sorrows of the Irish ChurchIllustrated

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•  Greatly expanded edition of this already substantial account, written by an Irish gentleman farmer, soldier, and politician. O'Reilly's work had originally appeared under the title Memorials of Those who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland in the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries (London, 1868), and was significantly added to for this New York publication, which first appeared in 1878. The appended treatment of the penal laws was previously published by Parnell as A History of the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics.

The volume opens with an oversized, color-printed map of Ireland on green paper; it is further illustrated with a frontispiece and 31 other plates mostly representing churches and abbeys but also Irish landscapes (“The Shannon above Limerick”), historical moments (“Massacre at Drogheda”), and prominent figures. One split image contrasts a tormented Irish family with the same family happy and prosperous in America; interestingly, that same split plate is reproduced at the back of the volume as two facing plates with new captions — “Ireland As She Is” and “Ireland As She Ought to Be.”

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped vignette of a radiant monolith surrounded by shamrocks; back cover with same vignette in blind, and spine with decorative gilt-stamped author, title, and publisher. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Back free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription of Maggie Brennan of Philadelphia; we note, but dare not speculate on the import of, her surname's matching that of one of the authors here.

•  NSTC 0558744 (for 1878 ed.).   Bound as above, front cover and spine aged to dark brownish blue and volume moderately rubbed overall. Folding map with tear from inner margin, extending inside frame (close to but not touching actual image). Pages browned in from edges due to nature of paper, but not brittle; dried plant matter laid in at three spots and an old tassel at another. A very solid copy, with hinges holding (unusual for copies of this hefty volume).  (29569)

Sleeping Beauty & a Bear to Boot

•  Title woodcut vignette of a girl holding a bird in a cage out of reach of a cat, & a tail-piece. A version of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant". The story is followed by "The Moral" in verse and by the story of "Paddy and the Bear", pp. 21-24. Very scarce edition. We were unable to locate another copy. No. "52" at foot of title.

•  Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17581)

Dun Emer for theBusted Bibliophile

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•  Limited to 200 copies. Printed chielfly in black, but colophon, prelude, and Dun Emer Press device in red. 10 poems had appeared previously.

•  Miller 9. Publisher's quarter off-white linen with blue-green paper sides in the Kelmscott style. Ex-library with call number tag on front cover, library name blind-stamped into covers, perforation stamp of library in blank area of title-page and in blank area of lower margin of last leaf. Dust soiled binding; corners bumped; top of spine pulled . (2682)
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Hawkey's Sallust

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•  Uncommon first edition: Classical scholar John Hawkey's production of the Roman historian's accounts of the Catiline conspiracy and of the Jugurthine War, as well as fragments of his history of Rome from 78 to 67 b.c., and two brief pieces addressed to Caesar. The Hawkey classics — uniform, accurate, attractive renditions of Virgil, Horace, Terence, Juvenal and Persius, and Sallust — were a major project undertaken by Trinity College, a series which “far surpasses any similar [previous] conception in the city” (McDonnell & Healy, p. 29). Lowndes calls this “a neat and correct edition.” The title-page bears an engraved vignette; woodcut headpieces are present throughout.

OCLC and ESTC locate only six U.S. institutional holdings.

Binding:  Contemporary treed calf with covers framed in gilt single fillet, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label. The sunburst tool with floral center used on the spine resembles that used by the Hallhead and McKenzie binderies on Dublin College books, lacking the border. Marbled endpapers; green silk placemarker present.

Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of “M. M'Causland” (possibly Marcus McCausland [1787–1862]).

•  ESTC T132869; Schweiger, II, 822; McDonnell & Healy, Gold-Tooled Bindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin, 27–30 & 295–99; Lowndes 1607; Graesse, VI, 241; Dibdin, II, 109; Brunet, V, 87.   Binding as above, board edges lightly rubbed, leather lost at head of spine, small abrasion to front cover, some spine gilt chipped; still, quite nice. Inscription as above; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Pp. 197/98 incorrectly paginated as 167/68.  (25949)

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1921. 8vo.
$50.00

•  The first English edition; preceded by the New York edition, which Shaw condemned for its numerous misprints.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges. Residue of sticky substance on back cover.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. Back to Methuselah. A metabiological pentateuch. London: Constable, 1922. 8vo.
$18.00

•  The second English edition, containing a considerable number of alterations.

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A161. Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

Shaw, [George] Bernard. The doctor's dilemma, Getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. London: Constable, 1924. 8vo.
$15.00

•  First published in German in 1908, and in English in 1911. This claims to be the "Seventh Impression."

•  Laurence, Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, A108 (for first edition in English). Publisher's green cloth. Incipient foxing at fore-edges.

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