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

153 Works on Paper 452 IRISH MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK, small quarto volume with recipes, fifty two pages, in a neat forward-slanting hand belonging to Catherine FitzGerald, wife of Robert Smithwick, inscribed on front endpaper ‘Mrs. Robert Smithwick’s Recipe Book / Williams / Fort 1831’. Pencil inscription on front blank. The recipes included are: Apple Jelly [Ash Hill]; To Preserve Lemon juice; Pickle Mushooms; Pigs head Collar; Lemon Cream; Blancmange; Green Peas Soup; Apple Fritters; Beef Collar; Custard Fritters [a pretty dish]; India Pickles; Napes Biscuit; Dieppe Pudding; Potatoe Pudding; Rabbit Soup; Gin- ger Cordial; Ginger Wine; Currant Jelly; Small Rice Cakes; Macaroni; Cream Lard; Lobster; Hung Beef; Curry; Transparent Pudding; Cherry Brandy; Carrot Soup; Plum Pudding; Stewed Tongue; Sauce for a Stew; Orange Marmalade, etc. Loosely inserted is Sydney Smith’s recipe for a salad dressing, dated March 1878. Half red morocco on worn papered boards. Circular engraved label of B. O’Brien / Bookseller & Stationer / George Street / Limerick on front pastedown. € 250 - 350 453 BURKE, EDMUND A Letter from a Distinguished English Commoner, to a Peer of Ireland, on the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics; previous to the late repeal of a part thereof, in the session of the Irish Parliament, held A.D. 1782. Dublin, 1783. First edition. 25, [1] pp. Recent quarter morocco. Todd. 42. ESTC T106364. The letter to Lord Kenmare is dated 21 February 1782. On the clergy he states: “a popish clergy, who are not restrained by the most austere subordi- nation, will become a nuisance, a real public grievance of the heaviest kind, in any country that entertains them: and instead of the great benefit which Ireland does, and has long derived from them, if they are educated without any idea of discipline and obedience, and then put under bishops, who do not owe their station to their good opinion, and whom they cannot respect, that nation will see disorders, of which, bad as things are, it has yet no idea. I do not say this as thinking the leading men in Ireland would exercise this trust worse than others. Not at all. No man, no set of men living are fit to administer the affairs or regulate the interior economy of a church to which they are enemies.” € 150 - 250 454 IRISH PRESS CORPORATION, 1937 A class A certificate, certifying the possession of two shares to Catherine Brennan and dated to December the 15th, 1937, struck with blind stamp lower left and signed in pencil € 100 - 150 455 ABBEY THEATRE A collection of ten theatre programs from the Abbey Theatre including “The Arrow” and another general programme edited and selected by W.B. Yeats and published by the Cuala Press (10)