Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

152 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 901. Binding: Johnson (Charles) The Wife’s Relief: or, The Husband’s Cure, A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, by Her Majesty’s Servants, 4to Lond. (For Jacob Tonson at Shakespear’s Head) 1712. First Edn., a.e.g. VIII, 68pp., cont. full crimson mor., dble. gilt fillets, tooled gilt panels with corner decorations, spine gilt but worn. Clean copy. (1) €225 - €350 902. Carrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to Dublin 1905. First Edn., port. frontisνmerous illus. thro.-out, lg. fold. cold. map, orig. green cloth, gilt decoration; [Healy (Fr. Wm.)] G.P.O. [Gulielmus Parocus Ossoriensis] Criticism of the History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 8vo Dublin 1905. First Edn., with Preface by Most Rev. Dr. Brownrigg, orig. boards; Litton (Helen) An Index to the Rev. Wm. Carrigan’s, The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4to Kilkenny 2005. Cloth & d.w. (6) €550 - €750 903. Austen, (Jane) Pride and Prejudice. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2011. Demy octavo. pp. [vi], 361. Bound in crimson morocco, covers framed by a single gilt fillet with floral tools in corners. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on blue morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board-edges hatched in gilt; cream endpapers; red and gold double end bands. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Housed in matching buckram slipcase. (1) €150 - €200 904. Signed Limited Edition Jordan (Neil) Shade, 8vo, L. (John Murray) 2004, signed, Limited Edition No. 52 (55) copies, mor. backed marble boards, gilt decor. spine matching slipcase. (1) €150 - €200 901 904 & detail 896. Wilde (Oscar). Pamphlets. A handsomely bound volume in blue morocco gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled e.p.’s, armorial bookplate of CALM (?), containing the following pamphlets by Wilde, each with front cover (only) bound in: – Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf. L’Envoi. Printed for private circulation, 1904, no. 107 of 200 copies, pp. 30; – Children In Prison and other Cruelties of Prison Life, L., Murdoch 1898, pp. 16; – Impressions of America, ed. Stuart Mason, Keystone Press, Sunderland 1906, one of 500 copies, 40 pp; – Wilde v Whistler, being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art. L. , privately printed 1906, pp. 20; – Poems in Prose. Paris, privately printed 1905, one of 50 copies on Imperial Japanese paper, 38 pp. A fine collection, well presented. All the items are scarce, the second particularly so. (1) €2000 - €3000