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69 info@fonsiemealy.ie 248 With Original Photo Illustrations 1865 Exhibition: Parkinson (Henry) & Simmonds (P.L.) The Illustrated Record and Descriptive Catalogue of the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865, Sm. folio Lond. 1866. First Edn., hf. title, litho frontis engd. fold. & other plts. & photographic plts., orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. (1) €200-€300 249 Collectors Books: Casey (A.) & Eatwell (Ann) Susie Cooper A Pioneer of Modern Design, 4to Suffolk 2002; Allen (D.R.) Cricket - An Illustrated History, 1990, profusely illustrated; Irish Silver from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century, Smithsonian Institution 1982, recent cloth; The Connoisseur - A Magazine for Collectors Illustrated, Vol. I No. 1, Set 1901. Recent hf. calf. V. Scarce; 2 others on collecting. (6) €50-€80 250 Typography: Hansard (T.C.) Typographia: An Historical Sketch of The Origin of The Art of Printing, thick 8vo Lond. 1825, fold. & other illus. cont. hf. mor.; Blades (Wm.) The Pentateuch of Printing, lg. 4to Lond. 1891. Lg. paper copy, Lim. Edn. 100 Copies only, illus. orig. mor. backed boards; Day (K.) The Typography of Press Advertising, lg. 4to Lond. 1956; & McMurtrie (D.) The Book the Story of Printing & Bookmaking, Lond. 1989. Illus. d.w. (4) €100-€150 251 Mitchel (Flora H.) Vanishing Dublin, lg. 4to Dublin 1966. First Edn., 50 coloured plates, cloth & pict. d.w. V. good. (1) €200-€300