301. Sheridan, Thomas / [Benjamin Franklin (mentioned as Subscriber with his address as Ambassador in Paris) / George Washington (mentioned as Subscriber)].

A General Dictionary of the English Language – One main Object of which, is, to establish a plain and permanent Standard of Pronunciation. To which is Prefixed A Rhetorical Grammar. Dedicated to the Volunteers of Ireland. [Including a List of Subscribers mentioning among others also: “Benjamin Franklin (Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of North America, at Paris, who ordered 20 copies)” / Mentioning also as Subscriber: “His Excellency General George Washington, Commander in Chief of all the Forces of the United States of North America”)].

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by P.Wogan at The Old Bridge and P.Byrne, College-Green, 1784. Octavo (14 cmx 21 cm). [10], LXIX, 825 [unnumbered] pages. Including a lenghty section mentioning the Irish Subscribers to this Dictionary with name and town. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original, red spine-label with gilt lettering. In protective Mylar. Binding rubbed and with some minor loss to leather. The binding firm and strong and endpapers and pastdeowns intact and NOT cracked ! Small signs of a faded dampstain without any consequence to the very good condition throughout. One page with a tear (Letter G). The unpaginated section was collated as complete.

302. Shorter, Dora Sigerson.

The Tricolour – Poems of the Irish Revolution.

Dublin, Maunsel and Roberts, Limited., 1922. 11 cm x 17 cm. 71 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor smudging and discolouration to pastedowns and endpapers. Foxing to edges.

303. Smith, Charlotte.

Montalbert – A Novel.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1795. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 270, 276 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

304. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

305. Somerville, Edith / Ross, Martin [Violet Martin].

A Patrick’s Day Hunt. [Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans].

Westminster [London], Archibald Constable & Co., no year [c.1902]. Oblong Folio. 47 pages with eight (8) plates in colour and several illustrations in black-and-white. Original, illustrated Hardcover, now in professional colloctor’s Mylar. Some of the plates with some minor staining, one plate cleanly detached. But all plates in wonderful and vibrant condition overall (see photographs).

306. St. John Joyce, Weston.

The Neighbourhood of Dublin – Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Association. With numerous Illustrations from the Author’s Photographs & Sketches.

Fourth Impression of the First Edition. Dublin, M.H.Gill & Son, 1939. Large – Octavo. XX, 512 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. The Volume in firm and excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

307. Stanhope, Earl Philip Henry.

Miscellanies. With some supplementary letters.

Second Edition. London, John Murray, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. 144 pages. Original Hardcover (full brown calf with gilt lettering to spine). Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

308. Staunton, Sir George / Lord Macartney.

An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [First Dublin Edition with 34 full-page-plates]; Including Cursory Observations Made, and Information Obtained, in Travelling Through That Ancient Empire, and a Small Part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a Relation of the Voyage undertaken on the Occasion by his Majesty’s Ship ‘The Lion’, and the Ship ‘Hindestan’ in the East India Company’s Service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin [sic]; as well as of their return to Europe. With Notices of the several places where they stopped in their way out and home: being the Islands of Madeira, Teneriffe and St.Jago, the Port of Rio de Janeiro in South America; the Islands of St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha and Amsterdam, the Coast of Java and Sumatra, the Nanka Isles, Pulo-Condore and Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the Papers of his Excellency, the Earl of Macartney, Knight of the Bath, his Majesty’s Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, Commander of the Expedition and other Gentlemen in the several Departments of the Embassy.

Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, R.Cross, P.Byrne and others, 1798. Octavo. Volume I: XV, 449 pages with 8 full-page plates / Volume II: XVIII, 430 pages, with 26 full-page-plates and including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, early 19th century half leather with original spinelabels. Bindings firm and strong but rather worn. Bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, to the pastedown of Volume I. Overall in very good condition with some stronger signs of wear but with all the illustrations / engravings, called for in the Dublin Edition.

309. Stratten & Stratten.

Dublin, Cork and the South of Ireland.

London, Stratten and Stratten, 1892. 22 cm x 27 cm. 326 pages. Illustrations (including frontispiece) in black and white throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good condition 1892 edition with very rare commercial directory with minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing to the spine and front cover, some foxing on inner pages and pages 13 & 225 are torn.

310. Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir – Temple, John / Tichborne, Sir Henry.

The History of the General Rebellion in Ireland raised upon the Three and Twentieth day of October 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, in the Year 1641. As also, The whole Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope’s Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland.

The Seventh Edition. Cork, Phineas and George Bagnell, 1766. 14 cm x 21 cm. xxiv, [12 pages with list of Subscribers], 412 pages. Hardcover / Professionally rebacked, original boards with gilt lettering and ornament to style of the 18th century. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Title and following page slightly fingerstained. Else in very good condition and especially beautiful and firm after the restoration of the volume by an english masterbinder.

311. Thacker, Christopher.

The Genius of Gardening: The History Gardens in Britain and Ireland.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. 17 cm x 24 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

312. The Classical Association of Ireland.

Proceedings for 1909 with Rules and List of Members.

Dublin, Browne & Nolan / Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1909. 14 cm x 21.9 cm. 101, [4] pages. Hardcover / Professionally repaired and recently rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Orginal softcover bound together. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor foxing throughout the book.

313. The Knight of Glin / Griffin, David J. / Robinson, Nicholas K.

Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland.

Kildare, The Irish Architectural Archive and The Irish Georgian Society, 1989. 25.5 cm x 28.5 cm. VI, 161 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner. This is the rare Hardcover – Edition !

314. Twohig, Patrick J.

Green Tears for Hecuba: Ireland’s Fight for Freedom [Black & Tan War in Ireland].

Dublin, Gaelic Press Ltd., 1979. Octavo. 63 pages. With Illustrations. Original Softcover. Small stains on pages 36 and 37, otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

315. Tyrrell, John.

Weather and Warfare – A Climatic History of the 1798 Rebellion.

Cork, Collins Press, 2001. 23 cm. viii, 208 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Few markings but otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

316. Vallancey, Charles / Piers, Sir Henry [Provenance: Abraham Abell (Cork City)].

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis – Five-Volume-Set with thirteen (13) Numbers (I – XIII) plus “A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland” and “Anecdotes of Chess in Ireland”. [See full list of Numbers, Chapters and Illustrations below and detailed images on our website].

Dublin, Thomas Ewing, 1770 – 1790. Octavo (13,5 cm wide x 21,5 cm high). Pagination: Volume I (contains Numbers I, II, III, IV): Frontispiece-Portrait, XIV, [6 unnumbered pages of “Contents”], 636 pages, [2] pages with the contents-page misbound [2], and 24 pages on “The Brehon Laws of Ireland” to the rear of the Volume. Volume I includes three illustrations (including the Large Folding-Map of Meath)/ Volume II (contains Numbers V, VI, VII, VIII, IX): 562 pages and 10 illustrations (including the Large Folding-Plan of the City of Kilkenny) / Volume III (contains Numbers X, XI, XII): LXX, 682 pages with one illustration (being the Large Fold-Out-Map of “Antient Ireland” by William Beauford) and VI Tables on two large sheets in the rear of the Volume (containing Orthography/Names of Numbers in different Languages, Names of Numbers of some of the Indians of America etc. etc. compared to the antient Irish) / Volume IV (contains Number XIII of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis and “A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland” by Charles Vallancey”): LX, 161 pages (being the end of Number XIII), plus Pagination for “The Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland”: Frontispiece-Map of Europe and Asia, XLVIII, 551 pages, followed by 16 unnumbered pages of an Index for “The Ancient History of Ireland”, followed by X (10) Plates (mainly fold-out plates with numerous illustrations for the “Ancient History of Ireland”, aslo included is a text-illustration “Inscription in the Cave of New Grange (page 212). / Volume V of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis: 368 pages plus Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Spine of Volume Three is coming apart. From the library of Cork Antiquarian Abraham Abell, with an inscription and original manuscript letter by his friend and “Brother Antiquarian”, John Bennett, 9 Academy St., 18th September, 1841.

317. Vertot, Abbe René-Aubert de. / Mitchel, J. / [Provenance: George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]

The History of the Revolution in Sweden – Occasion’d by the Changes of Religion, and Alteration of the Government, in that Kingdom. Written Originally in French, by the Abbot Vertot: Printed at Paris. And Done into English, by J. Mitchel, M. D.

The Sixth Edition. London, Printed for James and John Knapton, 1729. Octavo. [24], 312 pages. Hardcover / Original full calf, recently rebacked in beautiful style of the 18th century by an english master-bindery. With gilt lettering and ornament to the new spine. Original boards preserved. Excellent condition after the restoration with Exlibris / Bookplates of three previous owners: William Bartlett / Erik Haugaard / and most importantly with the anonymous armorial bookplate (″Libertas”) of George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (died 1783) [The titlepage signed by George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery]. Wonderfully clean and on excellent paper.

318. Viney, Michael.

The Broken Marriage – A Study in Depth of a Growing Irish Social Problem. Reprinted from The Irish Times.

Dublin, The Irish Times, 1970. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 26 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers.

319. McGee, Brian (Editor) / Coughlan, Stuart (Designer) / Cork City and County Archives Service.

Voice of the Many – Local archives from Cork 1914-1916.

Cork, Cork City and County Archives Service, 2016. Folio. XII, 177 pages with illustrations throughout the publication (in colour and black-and-white). Hardcover with dustjacket. Bookblock detached from the binding (like most of the Hardcover editions of this publication). Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is now an extremely rare and hard to find-publication !

320. Wakefield, Edward.

An Account Of Ireland, Statistical And Political [Volume Two (of 2)] / [With chapters on Irish Peerage and Inland Fisheries in Ireland (Eels / White Fisheries / Herring Fishery etc.)].

First and only Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812. Quarto (24 cm x 29 cm). 838 pages plus Index with Tables [e.g.: “Table of Religious Sects” (in Ireland) / Table with Prices from 1790 to 1802 (taken from County-Surveys)]. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s half – cloth. In protective Mylar. Binding with stronger signs of wear, but professionally restored with new pastedowns and endpapers.

321. Wallace, William Vincent / Herbert, W. M. / and others.

Kitty Tyrrell / Wearin’O’ the green / Ave Maria. Composed in honour of our Lady of Knock (The Apparition at Knock, Co. Mayo). and others. Volume of rare, original printed 19th century scores, many of which are related to Ireland. The Volume contains: 1. W.M.Herbert – The Cruiskeen-Lawn, an Irish Song. The Symphonies and Accompaniments. London, John Campbell, ca. 1860 (5 pages) / 2. Samuel Lover – Ask me what I am thinking, Ballad. London, Leader & Cock, ca. 1860. (5 pages) / 3. Chas. Jefferys and C.W.Clover – Kitty Tyrrell – Sung by Mr.Frank Bodda, Mr. Leffler and Mr. G. Genge. (ca. 1840) London, Jefferys, (ca.1840) – with an original lithograph as titlepage (slightly torn). (7 pages) / 4. M. W. Balfe – I’m a merry Zingara, Cavatinetta Brillante, written by E. Fitzball, sung by Madame Anna Thillon for whom it was expressly composed by M.W.Balfe. London, Chappell, ca. 1850. 9 pages / 5. Christy Minstrels – When the Merry spring is near. Sung by Horace Norman of the Original Christy Minstrels. Illustrated titlepage (coloured lithographed). London, Hopwood & Crew, ca. 1870. 5 pages / 6. Virginia Gabriel – Farewell. A Song. London, Robert Cocks, ca. 1850. 6 pages. Titlepage torn. / 7. Geo. F. Root – Tramp ! Tramp ! Tramp ! – The Prisoners Hope. Chicago, Published by Root & Cady, 1864. Original, lithographed titlepage with 5 illustrations of the American Civil War. Original Advertising for Cabinet Organs verso the titlepage and An additional full-page advertising for “The Musical Curriculum” by Geo. G. Root on the last page. 6 pages. Extremely Rare Civil War Ephemera / 8. Florence McCarthy and Charles W. Clover – Colleen Bawn. Ballad. Original illustrated lithograph. ca. 1840. 7 pages. Torn. / 9. Will. S. Hays – Nora O’Neal, Song & Chorus / 10. William Vincent Wallace – In Happy Moments, Ballad sung by Mr. H. Phillips. In the Grand Opera Maritana performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The Words by E. Fitzball. London, Cramer & Cie., ca. 1860. Small tears / 11. C.H.R. Marriott – Thy Face. Song, Words by R. Lejoindre. Small tears / 12. Mollie Darling – The Popular Ballad sung by the Christy’s Minstrels. / 13. William Vincent Wallace – There is a Flow’r that Bloometh. Ballad, sung by Mr. Harrison, in the Grand Opera. London, Cramer & Cie, ca. 1850. TORN ! / 14. M. W. Balfe – The Fair Land of Poland. Song sung by Mr.Harrison / 15. M. W. Balfe – The Fair Land of Poland. London, Chappell, ca. 1860 / 16. W.H.Bellamy – The Queen Hortense – “A Warrior bound for Palestine” – Illustrated titlepage (very early chromolithograph) ca. 1870 / 17. H.W.Longfellow – M. Lindsay – “The Bridge” – Illustrated titlepage (early chromolithograph) ca. 1870) / 18. William Vincent Wallce – Sweet Spirit, hear my Prayer. Ballad, sung by Miss Louisa Pyne. London, Cramer & Co., ca. 1855 / 19. Brinley Richards – “Oh Whisper what thou feelest, Ballad” – London, ca. 1850. New Edition / 20. Franz Abt – The Cuckoo Song. (Kuckuck wie alt) Written by George Linley. As sung by Mademoiselle Liebhardt. Lodnon, Robert Cocks & Co., ca. 1850. Stamped by Cramer, Wood & Co. in Dublin / 21. William Vincent Wallace – Scenes that are Brightest. London, ca. 1855. Torn / 22. Stephen Adams – Nancy Lee, Ballad / 23. Claribel – I cannot sing the old songs, Ballad sung by Mademoiselle Sainton Dolby / 24. William Vincent Wallace – The Chimes of Home ! – Ballad, sung by W. Harrison in the Opera of Lurline. ca. 1855 Slightly torn / 25. William Vincent Wallace – Gentle Troubadour, Ballad. London, Cramer, Beale & Chappell, ca. 1850 / 26. Walter Maynard / G. Linley – I strive forget thee, Ballad / 27. Alexander Lee – Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue / 28. Lord Burghersh – Bendemeer’S Stream. A Ballad from Lalla Rookh (Moore’s celebrated Poem). Stamped by Dunn & Ferguson in Cork ca. 1850 / 29. Henry C. Work – Grandfather’s Clock. Song and Chorus. London, C. Sheard, ca. 1850. Illustrated with an old clock – Lithograph / 30. Annie Fortescue Harrison – In the Gloaming – London, Hutchings & Romer, ca. 1880. Stamped by J. Crutchett & Sons, Dublin / 31. Annie Pearce Ryan – Ave Maria. Composed in honour of our Lady of Knock (The Apparition at Knock, Co. Mayo). Illustrated with an original lithograph. ca. 1850 / 32. Charles Hall – Wearin’O’ the green.

Ireland, c. 1860 – 1870. Folio. more than 80 pages. Hardcover / Original half leather. Binding stronger rubbed. Some of the scores torn and in poor condition. Rare collection of many irish related scores.

322. Webb, Alfred.

A Compendium of Irish Biography. Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, and of Eminent Persons Connected with Ireland by Office or Their Writings.

Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1878. 23cm x 14.6cm. xix, 597 (1) pages. Original Hardcover. One page detached / Otherwise in good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare!

323. Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Cork. With [18] Illustrations.

Cork, Guy & Co. Ltd., 1920. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. Frontispiece, XXXII, 420 pages. 18 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Frontispiece cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Cracks to valley of index pages near rear of textblock. Binding still good and firm and text block is solid and square. Some untrimmed pages. Foxing to edges and to endpapers and very occasionally to interior. An extremely scarce publication.

324. Webster, Charles A.

The Diocese of Ross – Its Bishops, Clergy and Parishes. With Illustrations and Map of the Diocese [Together with an earlier publication [Pamphlet] on the topic by Charles Webster: “The Diocese of Ross and its Ancient Churches”].

Cork / Dublin, Guy & Co. Ltd./Hodges & Figgis, 1932 – 1936. Octavo. Pagination of the book: XXXIV, 127 pages / Pagination of the Pamphlet: 40 pages plus photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover / Original Softcover. The book is inscribed by the author ! With some strong staining to the covers only. Otherwise in very good condition. Very Rare ! / The pamphlet “The Diocese of Ross and its Ancient Churches” was published within the “Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadaemy” and is in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

325. Weigel, Christoph / Kohler, Johann.

Insulae Britannicae Antiquae [with Ireland and Scotland] ex collatione veterum Geographorum et Historicorum Descriptae et Nummis Illustrate accurante Christophero Weigelio – [with an inset showing Orkney Islands and the Island of Thule].

Original, hand-coloured, copper engraved map [titles and locations all in latin]. Nuremberg, Christoph Weigel / [Johan Kohler], [1720]. Size of actual map: 39.2 cm x 32 cm. Size of complete sheet: 43.3 cm x 36.5 cm. Very good condition with some mild foxing. Minor tear to lower fold.

326. Wells, Warre B.

An Irish Apologia. Some Thoughts on Anglo-Irish Relations and the War.

Dublin and London, Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1917. 8°. 82 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper (W.P.Pearse). Original newspaper review of this title tipped in on rear pastedown (from “The Irish Homestead” – 1917).

327. White, Mary Elizabeth Fay Laing.

The Emerald Source.

unknown, unknown, unknown, 22 x 28 cm. 125 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

328. Whyte, Louis.

The Wild Heather Glen: The Kilmichael Story of Grief and Glory.

Co. Cork, The Kilmichael/Crossbarry Commemoration Committee, 1995. 15 cm x 21 cm. 171 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Softcover. Excellent condition ! Rare !

329. Wilkes, John / Bingley, William.

The North Briton – Revised and Corrected by the Author. Illustrated with Explanatory Notes and A Copious Index of Names and Characters. In Two Volumes (Revised Edition of Volumes I and II – Containing: No. 1 – No.45 – Published London, 1766) / [Plus: The North Briton – Volumes III – Printed for E. Sumpter, London and Dublin, 1763 (Containing No.46 from May 28, 1763 – No.68 on October 27th, 1763) & The North Briton – Volume IV – Printed for W[illiam] Bingley, London and Dublin, 1769 (No.46 from November the 12th, 1763 – No. 66 (or XX (20) of the Continuation) from September 17, 1768].

Mixed Editions bound uniformly [First Edition and Corrected Editions together]. Four Volumes (Bound in Three). London and Dublin, E.Sumpter & Anonymously, 1763 – 1769 Octavo (10 cm x 16,5 cm). Pagination: Volume I and II: 269, [5] pages including Index with two title-pages but continued pagination / Volume III: 216 pages / Volume IV: 288 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather with gilt numbering on spine and new spine-labels , created to style of the 18th-century. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Edward Supple, [most likely the Edward Supple from Supple’s Court, Castlemartyr, County Cork], with his name to titlepages. A very rare set !

330. Winkles, B. [Engraver] / Petrie, George [Artist / After a Drawing by George Petrie].

Bank of Ireland, Dublin (South Portico) – “The Original Parliament House”.

Original, 19th century Steel Engraving. London, Charles Tilt in Fleet Street, [1829]. 23 cm x 18 cm. Very good condition.

331. Wright, Rev. G.N.

A Guide to the County of Wicklow. Illustrated by Engravings, after the Designs of George Petrie, Esq. and a Large Map of the County [the large map is missing].

Original, true first edition from 1822. London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XII, [1],159, [7] pages. With 4 [of 5] illustrations, including Frontispiece. Original Hardcover of the early 19th century. Binding in poor condition. Illustrations slightly stained only. First layer of the bookblock slightly detached. Even though the large folding map and one of the iillustrations is missing , a rare and important, early tourguide through Wicklow with romantic descriptions of Bray, Glendalough,Luggelaw etc.

332. Wright, Thomas / Warren, H.

The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated with 43 [fortythree] Beautiful Steel Engravings from Original Drawings, executed expressly for this Work by H. Warren.

First Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. London / New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company, no year [c.1850]. Quarto (20.5 cm x 28 cm). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece and engraved titlepage, XIV, 728 pages / Volume II: Portrait-Fronticpiece of James Butler (Second Duke of Ormond), IV, [2], 663 pages / Volume III: Portrait-Frontispiece of a young Queen Victoria plus engraved titlepage showing the visit of George IV to Ireland in 1821, [4], 592 pages. Original Hardcover / Contemporary half-leather with gilt lttering and ornament to spine. Volume I professionally rebacked and all three Volumes now firm and strong. Very good condition of this important mid-19th-century-publication, documenting the very essence of intertwining politics and History of Ireland and Victorian Britain. The work is difficult top find in excellent condition. Interior excellent besides a few very minor dogears to some pages. From the library of B.Burrowes, Belfast, with the armorial bookplate / Exlibris including the Motto: “Audaces Fortuna Juvat”.