| Bibliography: | Title within double rules and printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and plates. Some discolouration otherwise a very fine large paper copy. Manuscript exlibris of Marcus Gage, with the information that the book was bought at Mr. Dugdale's (Dublin bookseller) in 1796. Binding: Dublin eighteenth century tan and tortoiseshell -mottled calf. Diamond Lozenge onlaid in white paper, with smaller green vellum diamond; both gold-tooled. Broad gold-tooled border with trophy tool in corners. The spine has six bands and seven elaborately gold-tooled compartments, with tan morocco lettering-piece in the second. Comb-marbled endleaves and gilt edges. Joints split but covers securely attached. Preserved in a red cloth box. Each plate bears the coat-of-arms of one of the one hundred and one subscribers who contributed five guineas, The two hundred and fifth subscribers who are just listed, paid two guineas. Provenance: Marcus Gage, who signed this copy, was born in 1755 and was the second son on Conolly McCausland of Fruit Hill, Newtownlimavaddy, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Gage of Magilligan . His mother was sole heir to her brother Hodson Gage's estates at Bellarena and on her death she bequeathed then to Marcus on condition that he assumed her family name. From inscriptions on other books, he is known to have frequently bought contemporary and antiquarian books in Dublin from 1794, the year of his father's death. N4 AR822 |
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