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By “Boz”. London (Richard Bentley) 1838.
3 volumes, 12mo (188 x 119mm). Title “By Boz”, bound
with publisher’s advertisements. Etched frontispiece in
each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank. Half
bound in brown leather over marbled boards with gilt
titles and tramlines to the spine. Condition is poor with
pages loose and foxed.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (in book form), with the “Fire-
side” plate at p.312 in Volume 3 and authorship ascribed
to “Boz” on each title-page.
Inscribed: “Lucy Woolsey December 1838 the gift of a very
dear friend” on each title-page, and with the bookplates of
O’Bryen Bellingham Woolsey.
The first ‘realistic’ novel that quickly became a classic. This
set from the County Louth Library of Milestown House,
Castlebellingham. This inscription shows that the local
ladies kept abreast of literary developments.
€ 800 - 1,200
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by
Captain Lemuel Gulliver (2 vols) London (Benjamin Motte)
1726
1st Edition (Teerink’s state ‘B’ or third issue)
Frontispiece portrait and six plates
Contemporary panelled calf, recently rebacked,
bookplates of ‘the Honble. George Baillee Esqr. one of the
Lords of the Treasury 1724’,
In a modern slipcase, a rather nice copy of this famous
book that, due to Swift’s genius, will never lapse into ob-
scurity. All of the first edition issues are exceedingly scarce
and its status is best summarised in Printing and the Mind
of Man no.185.
€ 2,000 - 3,000
THACKERAY
(22 vols), Smith, Elder & Co. 1869, with the
illustrations, a fine set in half green morocco, gilt tooled
bindings over marbled boards
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 500 - 800
New edition, Edinburgh and London (n.d.), seven volumes,
in a good half tan calf binding with morocco labels;
together with ‘The Agamemnon of Aeschylus - The Trage-
dies of Aescylus’, seven volumes, London 1865/1885, both
with bookplate of Lady Ardilaun, St. Annes;
together with ‘The Works of Charles Kingsley’, London
1895, 11 volumes, cloth, gilt, bookplate of Bishop of Tuam,
Killala and Achonry (25)
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 200 - 300