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44 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 38 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED 217. [Croly (George)]? Ireland in Past Times; An Historical Retrospect, Ecclesiastical and Civil, With Illustrative Notes. 2 vols. 8vo Lond. 1826. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, unopened, orig. cloth, paper labels, one spine worn. Scarce. Emf. (2) €80-€130 218. Coloured Plates: Swaysland (W.) Familiar Wild Birds, First-Fourth Series 4 vols. in 3 vols. Lond. 1901, coloured plates thro.-out, hf. mor. V. clean set. (3) €100-€150 219. Hawkey Classics: P. Virgilii Maronies Opera, Sm. 8vo Dublin (E. Typographia Academiae) 1745 With vignette of T.C.D. Printing House on title, in cont. Prize calf, with T.C.D. gilt stamp on both covers, & prize bookplate awarded to William Cavendish, upr. cover loose; also P. Terentii afri Comaediae, Dublin (E. Typographia Academiae) 1745, with engd. vignette on title, cont. mottled calf, T.C.D. Prize stamp on both covers. (2) €150-€200 220. Cromwell - The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 8vo Dublin (for Thos. Moore) 1741. Fifth, lacks port., later mor. backed boards; Perrott, The History of that Most Eminent Statesman, Sir John Perrott, Knight of the Bath and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1728. First Edn., later sepia port. laid down as frontis, later calf, worn. Emf. (2) €80-€120 221. Ruskin (John) The Element of Drawing; in Three Letters to Beginners, 8vo Lond. 1857 First Edn., illus., cloth; The Two Paths; Being Lectures on Art. Lond. 1859. First Edn., 2 plts. cloth; The Crown of Wild Olive, Lond. 1901. a.e.g., full decor. blue mor.; The Queen of the Air, 1892, vellum backed; & one other same author. (5) €50-€80 222. Dickens (Charles) American Notes for General Circulation, 2 vols. Lond. (Chapman & Hall) 1842. First Edn. - First State, with page x of preliminaries in Vol. I incorrectly numbered 'XVI.' Advert. leaf at start of Vol. I, 2 hf. titles, 6pp of adverts end of Vol. II, yellow end papers, cont. brown vertically ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, the base & head of each spine dam. (2) €100-€150