[Rarebooks] Varia

[Edward Ripley-Duggan]

We offer the following. The prices, already discounted, are nett to all.

Cowan, Robert Ernest (collated and compiled by) The Library of 
William Andrews Clark, Jr. The Kelmscott and Doves Presses. John 
Henry Nash (for William Andrew Clark), San Francisco, 1921. One of 
150 copies. Blue paper over boards, half cloth (green cloth spine), 
slipcased. Printed in red and black on hand-made paper. As is common 
with the Clark catalogues, the spine is faded. There is a slight flaw 
to the fore-edge of one slipcase. Despite this, a very nice copy 
indeed, and scarce.

While recently reprinted, the original edition of this useful work is 
a beautiful example of Nash's printing style. Both parts (Kelmscott 
and Doves) are bound in the single volume.  $150.00

(IRELAND). Madden, R[ichard] R[obert]. The United Irishmen; Their 
Lives And Times...Third Series... Dublin, James Duffy, 1846. First 
edition.  Three volumes, full brown morocco (probably Irish), spines 
attractively gilt, all edges marbled. 20 cm.,  xi, 418; 1 p.l., 350; 
vii, 318 pp. Ten plates in all, including the frontis. in each 
volume. Some chipping to head and tail of first volume, other light 
wear, some foxing to plates as usual, generally a clean set. This was 
Franklin Hughes Delano's copy (F.D.R.'s great-uncle), with a gift 
inscription in pencil dated 1849. This comes from a small collection 
purchased from one of the Delano estates.
The collation of this work appears variable in the matter of the 
plates. Our ten plates are as follows:
I: Madden's portrait (frontis.)., Wm. Cobbet, William Wolfe Tone, 
Bartey Teeling, James Hope
II: Captain Russell (frontis.), Thomas Russell
III: Robert Emmett (frontis.), death mask of Emmett, death mask of James Green.

We are aware of another copy of this rare work without the plate of 
Teeling, but with plates of Michael Dwyer and William Sampson, who do 
not feature in the text.

The biography of the Tones, the leaders of the first uprising, occurs 
in the first volume; the third volume is devoted entirely to Robert 
Emmet, leader of the second uprising of 1803. The various "Series" 
devoted to the United Irishmen were published years apart, and are 
not normally found together. Other subjects of the present work 
include  Corbet, Tandy, Blackwell, Teeling, Coigly, Rourke, Wilson, 
Duggan. McCabe, Porter, Munro, Binns and Russel. There is an 
extensive section of memoir by James Hope. This is an important (if 
not unbiased) source work pertaining to the activities of the United 
Irishmen, with an interesting provenance. $500



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