Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 9th & 10th, 2020

130 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 721 Coloured Plates: [Coombe (Wm.) & Rowlandson (Th.)illus.] The Tour of Doctor Syntax, 8vo L. (Ackermann’s Repository) 1813, Fourth, cold. frontis and t.p., and numerous cold. illus., contemp hf. green mor. marble boards, gilt decorated spine. Good Copy. (1) € 180 - 220 722 Berman (David)ed. George Berkeley, Eighteenth-Century Responses, 2 vols. 8vo N.Y. & Lond. (Garland Publishing Inc.) 1989. First Edn., boards; also Berman (D.) & O’Riordan (P.)eds. The Irish Enlightenment and Counter Enlightenment, 6 vols. 8vo Bristol (Thoemmes Press) 2002. Illus. fold. plt. & with facsimiles, orig. cloth. (8) € 200 - 300 723 Binding: O’Sullivan (Donal) Carolan - The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper, 2 vols. in one, 4to L. 1958. First Edn., 2 fold. maps, cold. frontis vol. I, & plts., qtr. vellum backed buckram, gilt; O’Mahony (J.)ed. Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland, 4to Cork 1894. First Series, some illus., recent qtr. crushed green levant, mor. labels, v. good; Hogan (Ed.) Onomasticon Goedelicum, 4to d. 1910. First Edn., map frontis orig. cloth. (3) € 180 - 250 724 Genealogy: Welch (Joseph) A List of the Scholars of St. Peters College, Westminster, As they were elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, 4to L. 1788. First Edn., Interleaved Copy, engd. frontis & 1 other plt., numerous cont. m/ss notes thro- out, later hf. mor. raised bands. V. good copy. (1) € 150 - 200 725 The Hyde Family Copy Dickens (Charles). The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Complete in One Volume. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Bradbury, Evans and Co., Printers, Whitefriars. N.d. [1841?], FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. “ This Tale is now reprinted, for the reader’s greater convenience, from the stereotype plates of ‘MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK’, where it was occasionally interrupted by other matter, which is expunged from this Edition. It is presented here,complete, in one volume. The numbering of the pages will be occasionally found to be defective, in consequence.” Very tall 8vo, page-block 26cms tall. Publisher’s olive-green fi ne-grained cloth, covers with rule and cable decorations in blind, spine with title and author’s name in gilt. Plain light yellow e.p’s. With running-head of Master Humphrey’s Clock throughout, but none of that text present. 228 leaves. Page 2 is numbered 2-38, p.47 numbered 47-79, p.96 numbered 96-102, p.224 blank, p.307 reverts to number 1. With 83 fi ne textual engravings by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne (‘Phiz’). A well-read copy, covers worn and faded, some light foxing but the plates in excellent condition. The Hyde family copy , with bookplate of Douglas Hyde (co-founder of the Gaelic League and fi rst President of Ireland), and with the signature of his mother Bessie Hyde on f.f.e.p., ‘From her a ff [ectiona]te A. Hyde, August 11 1873’, and further signed on t.p. Laid in is a copy of the Gaelic League Constitution dated October 1896, with markings in Hyde’s usual blue pencil, highlighting statements of the League’s non-political and non-sectarian nature (which was challenged by Republican elements circa 1915). (1) € 180 - 220 726 Taylor (M.) & Sewell (B.)comp. Saint Dominic’s Press A Bibliography 1916 - 1937, 4to Herfefordshire (The Whittington Press) 1995, Limited Edn., No. 232 (400) copies, frontis and tipped in plts., cloth backed boards, slip case. (1) € 120 - 140