Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland From the Arrival of the English, etc. by Musgrave, Sir Richard - 1801

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Dublin: John Milliken and John Stockdale, 1801. Second Edition. 3/4 Leather. Good. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Quarto. x 636pp, 210pp appendix + index. Bound in 3/4 tan leather. Stated second edition. Complete with 10 plates which include maps and plan. One of the maps is detached but present. Rubbing to the leather. Front and rear gutters are cracked and feel weak.

Dublin & London: Robert Marchbank, and Sold By J. Archer and the Other Booksellers [Four Others], 1802. Sir Richard Musgrave (1757-1818) was an Irish writer and politician. He had been the High Sheriff of County Wexford, and wrote this account froma pro-British point of view. Indeed, his book was "so steeped in anticatholic prejudice as to be almost worthless historically." That would be the judgement of Irish nationalism for over the next one hundred years and longer. This is a Near Fine copy of the Third Edition [stated]; This edition published in two volumes; here is Volume II only. Musgrave begins with an account of the battle of Vinegar Hill in June of 1798, which was disastrous for the United Irishmen, doomed the Rebellion, but provided many an heroic figure. Bound with marbled paper boards with tan calf spine and tips. The spine is highly decorated in gilt, with the titling within red labels.Clean text; viii, errata; 552 pages, followed by an unpaginated Index. Fold-out maps and… Read More

Dublin: By Robert Marchbank, for John Milken and John Stockdale, 1801. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 9". Not Stated. An excellent copy of the first edition of politician Richard Musgrave's anticatholic account of late eighteenth century Irish history, an influential and controversial work. Illustrated with folding maps. The first edition of Sir Richard Musgrave's historical and political study of the history of Irish rebellions, with 'a Particular Detail of that which broke out the 23rd of May, 1798; the History of the Conspiracy which preceded it, and the Characters of the Principal Actors in it'.Illustrated with nine plates, eight of which are folding maps. Lacking plate VII 'A ground plan of Ross, and a map of the adjacent country', which should appear facing page 407.Retaining the original half title.With the armorial bookplate of James Martin to the front pastedown, and a contemporary owner's inscription to the verso of the half title.In 1894, the Dictionary of National Biography… Read More

Dublin: 32, Grafton-Street, and Piccadilly, London.: John Milliken. and John Stockdale., 1801. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. VG, 1st ed, 1801, 10 pls. In contemporary calf boards, decorative gilt edge tooling, corners repaired. New spine, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to original red morocco label. Internally, decorative gilt tooling to turn-ins, red marbled endpapers, text block edges marbled red, small binders label to fep (Bohn), ink owners initials to verso (CWWW), lacks half title, map frontis, [3], (vi-x), [2], [1], 2-636 pp, [1], 2-210 Appendix, [8] index, [8] index, 10 maps & plates (9 folding), light occasional spotting and offsetting, small binders label to epd. A very good copy. (270*206 mm). (Lowndes 1641 later ed. Allibone 1395. Brunet 27513) Title continues: with a particular detail of that which broke out the 23d of May, 1798; the history of the conspiracy which preceded it, and the characters of the principal actors in… Read More

Dublin: Printed by Robert Marchbank for John Milliken, 32, Grafton Street and John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1801. 10 plates including folding maps. one ith small tear. x, [ii], [1]-636; 166, [6]pp. 4to. Bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt spine, red laether title label. Handsome binding. 10 plates including folding maps. one ith small tear. x, [ii], [1]-636; 166, [6]pp. 4to.