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68 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 478. Fine Set of Illustrated Volumes by H. Thompson [Hugh Thompson]Illustrator. A set of 10 volumes as follows: 1. Goldsmith (O.) The Vicar of Wakefield, preface by A. Dobson. Sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1890. 2. Gaskell (Mrs.) Cranford, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1891. 3. The Spectator, Reprint, Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1892 4. Dobson (Austin) The Ballad of Beau Brocade, sm. folio Lond. (Kegan, Paul French Trubner & Co.) 1892. Lim. Edn. No. 260 of 450 Copies Only. L.P. 5. Hood (T.) Humorous Poems, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1893. Lim. Edn. 250 on Large Paper. 6. Mitford (M. Russell) Our Village, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1893. Lim. Edn. 470 Copies on Large Paper. 7. Jacobs (Joseph)ed. The Fables of Aesop, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1894. Illus. by Rich. Heighway. Lim. Edn. 100 Copies only on Large Paper. 8. Various Sources - Coridon’s Song and other Verses, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1894. 9. Sheridan (Rich. Brinsley) The School for Scandal and The Rivals, sm. folio Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1896. 10. Reade (Chas.) Peg Woffington, sm. folio Lond. (Geo. Allan) 1899. Lim. Edn. 200 Copies Only on Large Paper. Together 10 volumes, all but one illustrated by Hugh Thompson, all uncut, mostly unopened, marble ends and fine uniform cont. hf. dark blue mor. marble sides by Zaensdork, spines in overlaid now in 3 marbled slip cases, flowers in red mor. panels. V. good. (10) €1000 - €1500 479. House of Commons: Report from Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland, folio Lond. 1824. First Edn., Fold. tables, a few leaves browned (otherwise v. clean copy) recent mor. backed marble boards, gilt raised bands, mor. labels. V. good. (1) €300 - €400 480. Land Occupation in Ireland: H.M.S.O. - Evidence taken before Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Law and Practice in Respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland, 2 parts, Lg. folio Dublin (Alex Thom) 1845. First Edn., cont. hf. calf & hf. mor., matching but not uniformly bound. V. good. (2) €300 - €400 481. Signed by Artist, etc. Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (E. Chas.) An Irish Florilegium, Vols. I & II. Together 2 vols. folio Lond. 1983 & 1987. First Edns., fine tipped in & other cold. plts., orig. cloth, & pict. d.w.’s, in original cloth slipcase. V. good. (2) €450 - €650 482. Nelson (E. Chas.) & Sayers (Brendan) Orchids of Glasnevin , An Illustrated History of Orchids in Ireland’s National Botanic Gardens. Lg. atlas folio Dublin 2002 Special Lim. Edition, No. 13 of 100 Copies Only, Signed by Authors, & by Wendy Walsh & Susan Sex, mounted cold. plts., mor. backed cloth & slipcase. (1) €300 - €400 483. Signed by Desmond Guinness Architecture: I.U.P. - The Georgian Society Records, 5vols. lg. 4to Shannon (I.U.P.) 1969. Second Edn., plts. in each vol., fine mor. backed boards, in slipcase. V. good set. (5) €500 - €750 484. Architecture: Sadlier (T.U.) & Dickinson (Page L.) Georgian Mansions in Ireland, lg. 4to Dublin 1915. First Edn. Limited to 700 Copies (No. 117), illus. numerous plts. orig. pict. buckram, good. (1) €300 - €400 482 478 483 479 481