Provenance:  Inscription of M.A. O'Neil to fly-leaf, Portland, ME (1905); signature of Francis Massey O'Brien, Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller also of Portland, in his “Proinnsías Ó Bríain” form (1940).

•  Publisher's quarter brick red cloth with muted-apricot paper-covered sides; elegant gilt cartouche on front cover with author and title in black. Board edges lightly rubbed. A pleasing, attractive copy with pleasing provenance.  (29955)

Vol. I here bears an extensive and interesting list of subscribers.

•  ESTC N20527.   Contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title-labels, and gilt-stamped volume numbers; volumes rubbed and covers only gingerly holding with front free endpapers separated. Vols. I and II only, of six; vol. I spine label lost, vol. II label chipped. Text blocks strong with some light age-toning and occasional foxing, only, and first and last few leaves with offsetting. Priced according to condition and with reading, engravings, and provenance all still pleasurable to engage with.  (37174)

“This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected,” according to the edition statement; the text is ornamented with reproductions of the originalthree wood engravings by W.M.R. Quick. The present example is numbered copy 719 of 1250 printed.

Provenance:  Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 33.   Publisher's half sheep and pink, red, and brown mottled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned, extremities a bit rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate as above; light foxing to endpapers, with a very few faint spots elsewhere. Lovely Nonesuch production of a “must read it to believe it” novel!  (32039)

While this work is certainly held in the expectable Irish libraries, it islittle held in British or American librariess. In fact, searches of NUC, ESTC, and WorldCat locate only two libraries in the U.S., both in the northeast (Cornell, Boston Public) reporting ownership.

•  ESTC T179610.   Period-style half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. Half-title lacking; title-page with early inked inscriptions in upper portion (one inked over), lower corners torn away, and edges chipped as next few leaves' are; first dedication page with early 20th-century inscription in inner margin. Pages darkened, especially at edges, and a good many bumped; last four leaves tattered with old repairs to lower corners taking a few letters but not sense, and once-separated final leaf with repairs also to upper and inner margins. A copy with some rough aspects, but one now sound anda book that's scarce.  (34108)

•  Original self wrappers, removed from a nonce volume; top margin cropped eliminating the top of the title's decorative frame and three page numbers, tear to the inner edge of last page slightly affecting the text. Good.  (17643)

Binding:  Publisher's light yellow cloth decoratively stamped in maroon and dark green, front cover with color-printed pictorial paper onlay, in color-printed dust jacket as above. Cover and jacket sport three-quarter portraits of a charming, intelligent-looking young woman of the period; not the SAME girl, however!

•  This ed. not in Wright; see Wright, III, 5090 for single-volume first ed.   Bound as above, volume slightly shaken, edges and spine extremities rubbed, tiny spots of insect damage to front joint; jacket darkened with spine head chipped and lower portion of spine torn away. Pages evenly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (41299)

At the rear of the volume are30 folding plates setting forth various dispositions and movements of infantry troops; clear, careful, verbal explanations of these precede them.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the CCPBE locateonly three copies worldwide (all in Spain).

Provenance:  Contemporary signature of “Velez” on title-page.

•  Not in Palau. On Doyle, see: DNB online.   Dark brown speckled calf, black gilt-lettered title-label (a little chipped) to gilt-ruled spine, marbled endpapers; binding lightly rubbed. Age-toning and general light soiling, occasionally a dog-ear or a spot, all plates clean, well-attached, and whole at folds. A very sound, very good copy. (36362)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis John Breck, Jr., dated 10/29/72. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, spine and edges sunned to brown, joints opening from head and foot, edges rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and front free one loosening; pages slightly age-toned. A handsome example of this enduring classic, with Mackenzie'slovely, lyrical illustration.  (39825)

•  ESTC T78584; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.) I:16.25.   Contemporary calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine and extremities showing minor wear. Endpapers and fly-leaves with marginal offsetting from turn-ins. Pages with occasional small faint spots, otherwise clean. A solid and eminently respectable copy.  (34096)

Fore-edge: This beautiful example bears a subtly shaded (and therefore hard to photograph)fore-edge painting showing Westminster Abbey in the background behind a waterfront view with sailboats.

Binding:  Full straight-grain dark olive green morocco, covers framed in elegant feather and pearl twist gilt roll, turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Stone-pattern marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

•  Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1802/1.   Binding as above, mild rubbing overall with some abraded areas consolidated, joints and extremities subtly repaired, aesthetically appropriate endbands supplied. Title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1803, “The gift of my beloved husband.” Intermittent faint spots of foxing, mostly confined to early leaves. One inked marginal annotation in an early hand, three psalms (145–47) with small inked emphasis marks, pages otherwise clean.  (28715)

•  ESTC R9506; Wing (rev. ed.) U160.   Late 20th- or early 21st–century quarter dark brown calf, round spine, gilt-beaded raised bands, red leather title-label and blind-stamped center device in each other spine compartment, date in gilt at base of spine; sides with wide comb pattern marbled paper. Waterstaining to early and late leaves, generally confined to margins, with cockling throughout; overall a rather good copy, nicely and very strongly bound.  (38981)

Fifth edition of the Voyage from London and second edition of the Continuation.

•  Voyage from London: Sabin 103534; Alden & Landis 739/343; ESTC T29204. Continuation: Sabin 103535 & 103538; Alden & Landis 739/340; ESTC T34033 & T34025.   Recent full calf antique-style with gilt concentric panels on covers and gilt corner-devices on same; round spine with raised bands, each accented by gilt rules. 19th-century wood-engraved portrait of Whitefield added as a frontispiece. A very pleasing volume.  (21775)

•  ESTC T121646; NCBEL, II, 695. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. One corner creased; first and last page lightly spotted, otherwise clean.  (5649)

•  ESTC R200673; Wing (rev. ed.) W3533.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Text soiled/stained throughout; fore- and top margins of all leaves with repairs to areas of lost paper, not affecting sidenotes; in all, Good.  (37988)