Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

110 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 294 SOMERVILLE, E.O.E. & ROSS, MARTIN. A St. Patrick’s Day Hunt Illustrated by Edith Somerville with eight coloured plates and textual drawings. Westminster, circa 1902. Ob- long quarto. Pictorial cloth boards. € 150 - 250 295 PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY Contrasts: Or,A Parallel between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centu- ries, and similar buildings of the present day London, 1836. First edition. Quarto. iv, 50 pp. With letterpress title page printed in red and black, additional engraved title page and 15 plates with tissue guards. Green pebbled-grain cloth. Inscribed on front endpaper ‘John Burke - Marble Hill - 1837.’ Pugin 1812-1852, architect, writer and designer, was one of the most influential architects of the nineteenth century and this polemical book is probably his most important. His conversion in 1835 from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism was a turning point in his life and from that time he devoted himself to furthering both his new faith and gothic architecture. Colonel Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet (1782-1847), Soldier, Whig Politician and M.P. for Galway 1830-1832, lived at his family seat Marble Hill, near Loughrea, County Galway. Marble Hill was built in 1775 by John Burke of Grallagh, who succeeded to the Creggeen Estate on his father’s death. He was a progressive farmer and made his fortune on cattle due to the American War of Independence. The house was burned during the Irish Civil War and the family took up permanent residence in England. € 200 - 300 296 SANDBY, P. A collection of 150 Select Views, in England, Scotland, and Ireland Drawn by P. Sandby, Esq. R.A. London, circa 1781. Small oblong quarto. Red morocco. Spine richly gilt. All edges gilt. A fresh copy. € 300 - 400