Shakespeare, William.

Collection of 9 interesting publications of literary criticism and history regarding William Shakespeare. The collection includes: 1. Brents Stirling – The Shakespeare Sonnet Order (1968) / 2. Katharine Cooke – A.C.Bradley and his influence in Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism (1972) / 3. Nichol Smith – Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare. Second Edition (1963) / 4. Walter Whiter – A Specimen of a commentary on Shakespeare – Being the text of the first (1794) edition revised by the author and never previously published. edited by Alan Over – Completed by Mary Bell (1967) / 5. Kenneth Muir – Shakespeare – The Comedies. A Collection of critical Essays. Edited by Kenneth Muir. Englewood Cliffs, 1965 / 6. Peter Quennell – Shakespeare the poet and his background (1963) / 7. S.C.Sen Gupta – Shakespeare’s Historical Plays (1964) / 8. Anne Righter – Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play (1964) / 9. Bertrand Evans – Shakespeare’s Tragic Practice (Clarendon Press, 1979)//

Berkeley / Los Angeles and others, University of California Press (and other publishing houses), c. 1968 – 1975 8°. c. 2000 pages. All volumes in hardcover. All titles are former library copies with ugly red markings on edges and bindings. Inside very good. More images upon request.

[Shakespeare, William / Malone, Edmond].

The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare [sic], in Sixteen Volumes [15 Volumes only since Volume 9 is missing]. Collated verbatim with the most authentic copies, and revised: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are added, An Essay on the Chronological Order of his Plays; An Essay Relative to Shakspeare and [Ben] Jonson; A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI. An Historical Account of the English Stage, And Notes; by Edmond Malone.

15 Volumes (of 16). Dublin, Printed for John Exshaw, No.98, Grafton-Street, 1794. Octavo. Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Smith, Charlotte.

Desmond – A Novel in Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W. McKenzie, H.Colbert, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1792. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). VII, 276, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

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.

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.

[Steele, Richard] Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [With four engravings by F.Haymandel / C.Grignion].

Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J.Buckland, H. Woodfall, etc., 1764. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Frontispiece, [2], 300, [14], Frontispiece, [3], 336, [13], Frontispiece, [5], 318, [16], Frontispiece, [7], 320, [12] pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful, bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

Stevenson, Robert Louis.

Prayers – Written at Vailima. [Prayers written for Family Use at Vailima].

London, Henry E. Walter, 1945. Small Octavo. 32 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Stone, Harry.

Fairy Tales and Ogres : Dickens’ Imagination and “David Copperfield”.

Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1964. 8°. 7 Pages (pp. 24-30). Stapled blue wrappers (softcover). Good condition. Some rust marks from staples. “DICKENS” and “Sincere regards, HS” (Harry Stone) written in pen on front cover. Some text markings. [Offprint from: “CRITICISM, a Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, Vol.VI, No.4, 1964.]

Strickland, Agnes / [and Elizabeth Strickland].

Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman conquest. Now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. A new edition, revised and greatly augmented, embellished with Portraits of every Queen.

8 Volumes (complete set). London, Colburn & Co., 1851. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Agnes Strickland and engraved titlepage, XXII, 614 pages with 15 illustrations (including Froontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume II: Frontispiece-Portrait of Isabella of Valois, engraved titlepage, VIII, 704 pages with 16 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume III: Frontispiece-Portrait of Jane Seymour, engraved titlepage, [4], 588 pages with 10 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume IV: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, engraved titlepage, [4], 790 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume V: Frontispiece-Portrait of Anne of Denmark, engraved titlepage, [4], 703 pages with 8 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VI: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary of Modena, engraved titlepage, [2], 672 pages with 5 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary II when Princess of Orange, engraved titlepage, [3], 466 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VIII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Anne, engraved titlepage, [2], 556 pages with 3 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) // Original, very decorative half-leather bindings with gilt lettering and ornaments on spines, marbled-paper-covered-boards and marbled edges. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The set comes frm the private library of Major General Cosmo Alexander Richard Nevill, with his armorial bookplate / Ex Libris to the pastedown of each Volume, bearing his family-motto: “Ne Vile Velis” [″Wish for nothing Vile”].

[Swift, Jonathan] Irving, David.

The Elements of English Composition [With an essay on ‘Critical examinations of a passage in the writings of [Jonathan] Swift’].

The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1816. Octavo. X, 318 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interimsbinding. Binding slightly rubbed. Endpaper with small abrasion (minor tear). Bookseller-sign on pastedown: “Sold by J.Bolster, Bookseller, No.7, Patrick Street, Cork”. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle) / Name of preowner John Meade in ink on titlepage.

Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Virginians – A Tale of the Last Century. With Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author.

First Edition in book-form (the title originally published in 24 monthly parts). Two Volumes (complete set). London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858 – 1859. Octavo. Volume I: VIII, 382 pages / Volume II: VIII, 376 pages. With Frontispiece and illustrated titlepages included in both Volumes. Illustrated throughout. Hardcover / Original green morocco – bindings with red spine-labels with gilt lettering and gilt ornament to spine and boards. Masterbindings by Victorian Bookbindery “Thomas Bosworth in Regent Street”. Very good condition with minor signs of wear only. As usual with some foxing and spotting to illustrations

Thomas, Alan.

The Director.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1958. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Some foxing to the page edges. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Thomas, Dylan.

Under Milk Wood.

Original Proof Copy. New York, Harold Ober Associates, No date (1954). 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 96 pages. Original softcover in protective mylar sleeve. Detached and disintegrating front and back covers. Split binding. Inner pages in good condition.

Thomson, James / [Newton, Sir Isaac / Walpole, Robert].

The Works of James Thomson. Volume The First only [of Two]. Containing, The Seasons, Liberty, The Castle of Indolence and Poems on Several Occasions [Includes also: “Antient and Modern Italy compared: Being the First Part of ‘Liberty’, A Poem”].

Volume I (of II). Dublin, Printed for G.Risk, G. and A. Ewing and W.Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1751. Small – Octavo (10 cm x 16,5 cm). 363 pages with all four original engravings (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) and also including the section with “A Poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole”. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf. In protective Mylar. Endpaper with small tear. The engraving “Spring”, loosened and with damage to upper margin (effecting the image). The three other engravings in place and in very good condition (see photographic images). Provenance-Entry: “Eliza Hungerford, March 5, 1771” [Elizabeth Hungerford].

Trollope, Anthony.

Phineas Redux.

2 volumes. London, Ward, Lock and Co., no date [c.1884]. 17.4cm x 11.8cm. IV, 595 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Tupper, Martin F. [Farquhar].

Proverbial Philosophy.

Thirty-fifth Edition. London, Hatchard and Co., 1859. Octavo. Frontispiece – steel-engraving of a bust showing Martin Tuppper, 385 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative full morocco with gilt lettering to spine. In protective collector’s Mylar. Some children’s writing to frontcover. Slightly rubbed binding. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges gilt. Small stain to edge.

[Viereck, Peter] Abse, Dannie.

Dannie Abse.

First Edition. London, Vista Books, 1963. 11,2 cm x 18,9 cm. 48 pages. Original softcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Dannie Abse to american writer Peter Viereck: “To Peter – A poor exchange for the books you have been kind enough to give me, and which I so value – Dannie – Amherst, April ‘68”. [The Pocket Poets].

Waller, Edmund / [Provenance: John Morrison].

The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in Verse and Prose.

First Dublin Edition. Dublin, Printed by W.G.Jones for W. and W.Smith and T.Ewing in Dame-Street, 1768. Small-Octavo. [8], LXIV, 272 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding very firm and only slightly bumped and rubbed. Overall in a very good condition with some signs of external wear. With the name “John Morrison” on the titlepage [possibly the 18th century – Architect John Morrison from Midleton, with a connection to Castlemartyr]. This book came subsequently from the Library of Daniel Conner, Connerville / Bandon / Manch House in which also a set of Buffon, from the library of Richard Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin and MP for Bandon Bridge was included.

Walpole, Hugh.

The Herries Chronicle: Rogue Herries; Judith Paris; The Fortress; Vanessa.

London, The Reprint Society, 1955. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XII, 1482 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

Wells, H.G.

Marriage.

London, Thomas Nelson, no year [c. 1920]. 12cm x 18cm. 430 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor stains to the front cover and slightly dogeared. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

White, Henry Kirke.

Henry Kirke White’s Poetical Works and Remains. Life of Henry Kirke White By Robert Southey.

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1855. 11 cm x 17 cm. XLVII, 112 pages with illustrations. Original hardcover in leather. A protective plastic cover on the outside. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Writing on front page to previous owner. Pages stained in many places more so on illustrated pages. Maroon full-leather hard covers, highly decorated with gilt, raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, all page edges in glit. Solid binding.

[Woolf, Virginia] Sterne, Laurence.

A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: with an introduction by Virginia Woolf.

[First Edition. Limited printrun of 5000 copies. Kirkpatrick B 7]. London, Oxford University Press, 1928. 9.5 x 15.5cm. (17), 233 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of shelf wear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford World’s Classics, No. 333].