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Edinburgh 1876, 25 volumes, with the steel engrav-
ings, in a sumptuous polished green full morocco
binding, the spines elaborately gilt in compartments
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 400 - 600
‘The Annals of Newgate or Malefactor’s Register’,
London 1776, four volumes, numerous engravings,
old calf, rebacked at some stage, somewhat worn and
loose but a useful copy
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 150 - 250
M.S.S. Notebook: ruled, with green morocco cover,
155 x 85mm, Valuation of furniture etc. at St. Annes,
Clontarf for Arthur Lee and Benjamin Lee Guinness
Esqrs. on the 23rd January 1838, the total is £1,175-
3-9 of which £81-15-0 is at James Gate. The most
valuable entry is a set of 20 dining chairs in morocco
leather at £57-15-0.
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 500 - 800
195 x 150mm, preserving printed menus for
Cambridge dinners attended by the Hon. Benjamin
Plunket c. 1890’s for colleges and various dining
clubs, mostly designed by Redin & Co. Cambridge
(53), displaying considerable artistic ingenuity and
originality in art-nouveau taste these feasts, typically
with many courses such as Hors d’oeuvre; Potage;
Poisson; Entrée; Relevé; Rôti; Extremet; Dessert. are
redolent of fin-de-siècle luxury. Interesting are ‘The
Hibernian Dinners’ where the toasts, Prosperity to
Ireland, Woman, Foxhunting were proposed by such
gilded youths as Viscount Corry of Castle Coole and
Tom Connolly of Castletown.
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 200 - 300