Adam's Country House Collections 12th & 13th October 2020

290 Country House Collections 749 AN 18TH CENTURY CLOAK FRAGMENT BY REPUTE BELONGING TO “BONNIE” PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART, the red velvet embroidered with silver and gold thread, accompanied by a paper envelope inscribed: pieces or red velvet, part of Prince Charles Edward’s cloak, given by him to Colonel Hamilton, brother of my G grand- mother (step) Babington after the fighting of 1741. Provenance: The Hamilton family, Hamwood House, Co. Meath; Purchased by current owner H.O.K Sale, RDS Dublin, 31st May 1999, lot 75 € 1,500 - 2,500 750 ‘THE GEORGIAN SOCIETY RECORDS’, 1909- 1913 Five volumes; together with ‘Georgian Mansions in Ireland’, 1915, printed for the society at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby & Gibbs, each numbered from a limited edi- tion. (6) € 1,400 - 1,800 751 PLUNKETT, HORACE Ireland in the New Century, London 1904, 1st edition, presentation inscription from the author to Lady Gregory dated Feb. 1904, with type written letter signed Horace Plunket 22/2/1904 on embossed Department of Education and Technical Instruction, Dublin paper in which he respectfully solicits her criticism of his book, and with her distinctive book-plate, and the later library stamp of C. F Kennedy, Loughananna. In a burgundy cloth binding, the cover stained. A marvellous association copy which combines two of the most influential intellectuals of Irish Society at the beginning of the 20th century, whose optimism was to be cruelly dashed. € 1,500 - 2,000 752 PRIOR, MATTHEW The Poetical Works (2 Vols), London 1779, polished calf, the spine gilt in compartments centred by paterae, crimson and green morocco labels Vol I has the bookplate of James Leigh Perrot and Vol 2 that of Richard Brinsley Sheridan superimposed. This edition of Priors poems, admired throughout the Georgian period was bought out by the publisher T. Evans who dedicates it to Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It would seem that the original owner was J.L Perrot, the relation and influencer of Jane Austen and that subse- quently came to the Sheridans. € 1,000 - 1,500