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kept by Benjamin Plunket from August 1904 to Janu-
ary 1947, oblong, 200 x 260mm in crushed burgundy
morocco covers, with a fairly dull list of gentry and
clerical worthies
this covers: Aghode Rectory, Co. Carlow, 1912, 71
St. Stephen’s Green 1913, The Palace Tuam 1925, St
Annes 1939, Sybil Hill to end. The Plunkets inherited
St. Annes from Olive, Lady Ardilaun and sold it in
1939
together with a Victorian oblong carte-de-visite
photograph album, 150 x 210mm, in ribbed morocco
with brass greek-key border with central ivory shield,
signed Arthur E. Guinness, containing approximately
50 portraits, some inscribed (2)
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 300 - 500
daughter of Edward Guinness and wife of Sir Benja-
min Guinness on her wedding tour, 1837 pp.131, with
frontispiece photograph of the author’s portrait by
Catterson smith, finely bound in three-quarter hide,
with morocco labels, bookplate of Benjamin John
Plunket;
a conventional trip from Dublin, taking in France, Itlay,
Switzerland and back through England; together with
Aide-memoire diary 1866-1886 of Frederika Plunkett,
The Palace, Tuum, and 64 Eaton Place, London
Provenance: St Anne’s, Clontarf
€ 200 - 300