The Hamilton manuscripts: containing some account of the settlement of the territories of the upper Clandeboye, Great Ardes, and Dufferin in the County of Down ... /Printed from the original MSS and edited by T.K. Lowry, Esq.
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| Language: | English |
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Belfast
Archer and Sons
[1867]
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| Collection: | Benjamin Iveagh |
| Item Description: | 866 |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 166 p., [2], cv, [5] 23 cm. |
| Binding Note: | Gold-tooled green morocco over heavy bevelled wooden boards by Marcus Ward, Belfast, with his stamp on the upper turn-in. The upper cover is lavishly decorated in the Victorian manner. a narrow border shamrock roll encloses four red corner onlays, stamped in gold. Shamrock corner sprays in the centre panel. 'Gwendolen' ornately worked in brass, onlaid in the centre. A series of fillets and a chain roll on the lower cover. Broad, roll-tooled turn-ins, watered silk endleaves and gilt edges. Upper joint weak and corners a little rubbed, otherwise an extremely well preserved example of a sumptuous Victorian binding. |
| Bibliography: | 1875 signature of Gwendolen Hamilton. A very fine copy. Gilbert Library 501, Lough Fea 129. J2 AR1620. |
