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

131 Works on Paper 363 EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVELL Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth. Two volumes. London, 1820. Half calf. Bookplate of James King, Esq. Scattered foxing to prelims of volume one The radical English Publisher, Richard Phillips approached Edgeworth in 1802 and offered him £1,000 for his autobiography. Some twelve years earlier Darwin wrote to Edgeworth “why don’t you publish some- thing wonderful, you have so much invention”, but Edgeworth was neither interested in money, nor for that matter in fame. These ‘Mem- oirs’ display Edgeworth as a man not only of genius, but tremendous character, a man who could play with fire and escape being burned. They are a source of information which has been of considerable im- portance to scholars and picture for us the story of a great genius who was also a great Irishman. € 150 - 250 364 AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS STATEMENTS Respecting the American Abolitionists; by Their Opponents and their Friends: Indicating the Present Struggle between Slavery and Freedom in the United States of America Compiled by the Bristol and Clifton Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Dub- lin, 1852. pp. 24 pp. Recent wrappers. € 200 - 300 365 BLACKER, B. H Brief Sketch of the Parishes of Booterstown and Donny- brook, in the County of Dublin An Appendix, containing Notes and Annals. Dublin, 1860. First edition. v, 104 pp. Cloth. Rare. € 100 - 200 366 BLAKE Family Letters from the Irish Highlands of Cunnemarra By a Family Party. London, 1825. Second edition. xvii, [1], 414 pp. Cloth. Spine rebacked. Rare. One of the best contemporary accounts of social life in the West of Ireland by a member of The Tribes of Galway. Henry Blake and his En- glish wife, Martha Louise bought Renvyle House where they farmed and ran a business. This work describes in a series of forty-nine letters: Emigration to the Highlands; Report of the Slate Quarry at Letterguesh; Explanation of Con Acre; Balance of Good and Evil in National Charac- ter; Industry of the Female Peasantry; Influence of the Priests; Climate of Cunnemarra; Herring Fishery; General Opposition to the Laws; Un- equal Distribution of Justice; Clanship; Modesty of the Female Peas- ants; Boffin; etc. A feast of descriptive articles on social life in this most beautiful part of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century € 200 - 300