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37 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 313. Coloured Plates: Shaw (G.F.) The Panorama of Nature, lg. 4to Lond. (Published by R. Edwards) 1819. Hand- coloured frontis. add. engd. title, & 78 hand-coloured plates (Ex. 80, lacking Nos. 17 & 43), some browning or soiling, cont. hf. mor. upr. cover loose, as a coll. of plates, w.a.f. (1) €130 - €180 314. Hand-Coloured Fashion Plates: Le Follet, A sm. folio Volume, containing approx. 188 hand-coloured plates of Paris fashion, a few loose, a few stained, all c. 1850- 1870, generally bright & clean, cont. hf. mor. dam., lacks spine. As a coll. of plates, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 315. Signed Limited Edition de la Mare (Walter) Down-Adown-Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Sm. folio Lond. (Constable & Co.) 1922. Signed by Author, No. 180 of a Limited Edition of 325 Copies. With coloured & bl. & white illus. uncut, orig. gilt decor. vellum type boards, glassine cover. V. good copy. (1) €220 - €320 317. Hardy (Francis) Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, 4to Lond. 1810. First Edn., engd. port. frontis fac-simile title, recent hf. mor. mor. labels, gilt spine. Nice copy. (1) €150 - €200 318. Early Dublin Edition Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols. 4to Dublin (Thos. Ewing) 1775. Fourth Edn., Revised by the Author. Subscribers list, cont. calf, rebacked with orig. spine laid down worn, mor. labels. (2) €280 - €380 316. Very Good - Signed Limited Edition Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Limited Edition, No. 46 of 375 Copies Only, Signed by W.B. Yeats. Two hf. titles, 2 port. frontis, orig. green cloth, orig. glassine covers, & slipcase. V. good. (2) €1500 - €2000 313 318 314 315 & detail