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35 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 225. With Hand-Coloured Plates [Surtees (R.S.)] Hillington Hall or The Cockney Squire, A Tale of Country Life, 8vo Lond. 1888. 12 attractive hand coloured plts., orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1) €180 - €250 226. Signed by Louis le Brocquy Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, folio Massachusetts (Imprint Society) 1970 Ed. by Stanley Sultan. Lim. Edition, No. 544 of 1950 Copies. Signed by le Brocquy & S. Sultan, cold. full page illus., orig. gilt decor. yellow buckram, slipcase. V. good. (1) €300 - €400 227. Signed by Louis le Brocquy Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Táin, trans by Thomas Kinsella with brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Folio Dublin 1969. Lim. Edn. 1750 Copies Only. Signed by Artist. orig. black buckram,πct. d.w. V. good. (1) €550 - €850 228. Limited to 75 Copies Only, with Original Watercolour Bewick (Pauline) Painting a Life, lg. 4to Dublin 1985. Special Limited Edition, No. 14 of 75 Copies Only, Signed by Artist & James White Author, with original watercolour laid in Cold. & other illus. thro.-out, orig. vellum backed boards, & slipcase. (1) €325‑€450 229. Patrons Copy Robinson (Wm.) The Wild Garden, A New Illustrated Edition. Annotated by E. Charles Nelson, 4to Dublin 2003. Lim. Edition No. 7 of 160 Copies only Signed by Chas. Nelson & Publisher, cold. plts. thro.-out, full gilt decor. boards, & slipcase. (1) €325‑€400 230. Murtagh (Harman)ed. Irish Midland Studies - Essay in Commemoration of N.W. English, 4to Athlone 1980. First Edn., Signed by Rolf Loeber, Ruth Delany, Harman Murtagh & Patrick Murray, Illus., full gilt lettered crimson mor., slipcase. V. good copy. (1) €180 - €250 231. Signed Limited Edition, 20 Copies Only Murtagh (Herman) Athlone History and Settlement to 1800, roy 8vo Athlone 2000. First Edn. Lim. Edn. No.3 of 20 Copies Only, Signed by Author; Burke (John) Athlone in the Victorian Era, 8vo Athlone 2007. First Edn. LIm. Edn. No. 12 of 20 Copies Only, Signed by Author, Aiden [Heavey] & poet Desmond Egan. Uniform black cloth, & slipcases. (2) €250 - €350 232. Periodical: Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society, Vol. I No. 2 (2 copies) - Vol. II No. 12., together 12 Nos. roy 8vo bound in 2 vols. Wexford 1929 - Longford 1951. Illus. etc., recent hf. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. As a periodical, w.a.f. (2) €200 - €300 228 & detail 226 230 227 & detail 232 231 229