| Bibliography: | Anonymous. By Theobald Wolfe Tone, Richard Jebb and John Radcliff. With a half-title and five final advertisement pages. Without half-title. Some manuscripts annotations. Occasional spotting, otherwise a good copy. Robert Bigsby bookplate. This novel was written by Wolfe Tone in collaboration with two student friends when he was studying law in the Middle Temple. The relevant passage in the ""Autobiography"" is as follows: ""I likewise, in conjunction with two of my friends, named Jebb and Radcliff, wrote a burlesque novel, which we called 'Belmont Castle' and was intended to ridicule the execrable trash of the circulating libraries. It was tolerably well done, particularity Radcliff's part, which was by far the best; yet so it was that we could not find a bookseller who would risk printing it, though we offered the copyright gratis to several. It was afterwards printed in Dublin and had some success."" 'A Bibliography of Theobald Wolfe Tone'. by M.J. MacManus Dublin 1940. N1 AR44 |
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