Description
| Item Description: | 1440 |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 443 p., (3) (Numbers 319-328 are repeated) ill., port. 32 cm |
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| Binding Note: | Binding: olive-green straight-grained morocco in the style of George Mullen but with the ticket of C. Hering. Blind acorn roll on border, with shamrock and four small acorns in corner compartments,, with the title tooled in gold in the second, the imprint at the base. Brown watered silk doublures and endleaves with gold-tooled borders, broad gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt-edges. Rebacked, with original spine-strip laid down; edges of covers a little worn. Compare border in Craig's booklet 'Irish Bookbinding', plate 17. |
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| Bibliography: | Engraved frontispiece portrait . Foxing on frontispiece affecting title and half-title, otherwise a very fine copy. E.C. Guinness bookplate. Bradshaw 5797, Gilbert Library 349, Lough Fea 130. The 'Memoirs' are largely concerned with the activities and correspondence of the important political figures in eighteenth century Ireland, including Burke, Flood, Walpole, Rockingham and Fox. Another copy. O.2 F147 |
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