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

42 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED info@fonsiemealy.ie fm 216 Fine Association Copy Binding: Wordsworth (William) Poems by William Wordsworth, Selected and Edited by Rob Aris Willmott, 4to L. 1859. Illus. by Birket Foster etc., a.e.g., full tooled chestnut mor., spine with raised bands, gilt in panels, bound by Nutt, Cambridge, signed. (1) * An inscribed Presentation Copy form Adam Sedgwick, the eminent geologist, also with Wordsworth Signature on a slip, tipped-in,; and with an envelope containing a lock of the poet’s hair, and some leaves of fl owers from Rydel. Bookplate of Harry Arnold, Arnbarrow. € 450 - 650 215 One of 100 Copies Only - Signed [Slavery:] Bullitt (Thos. W.) My Life at Oxmoor, Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. With lenghty inscription to Anne Moen Bullitt, relating to her forebears by Wm. Marshal Bullitt, dated Dec. 25th, 1934. Port. frontis & other illus. uncut, orig. blue cloth. V. good. * Anne Bullitt, the recipient of this volume was the daughter of Wm. Bullitt, fi rst American Ambassador to Russia, and also to France and personal friend of President F. D. Roosevelt. She lived for a time at Palmerstown House, Co. Kildare. Their Estate at Oxmoor was one of the earliest in America to utilise slave labour. See Biographical Note before Lot 153. € 425 - 650