[Keene, Martin] / L.E.L. / Charles Darwin / etc.

Irish Union Magazine [Later “The Irish Monthly Magazine]. First [and only] Volume published “March – August 1845”. [With the article and Illustrations to “A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift’s Box” – inlcuding a full page – illustration of the Snuff Box passed down from Dean Jonathan Swift (2 Figures)”].

First Edition. Two Volumes bound in one. Dublin, Martin Keene and Son, [1845]. Octavo. Frontispiece-Engraving “The ruins of Leix Castle (Queens Co.) – From a Sketch by Chidley Coote Esq.”, engraved titlepage, 468 pages (including Index) / Followed by Volume II, now titled “The Irish Monthly Magazine” – September – February (Dublin 1846): 494 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and original spinelabel. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. An extraordinay Volume, very rare with the Literary Notices on Charles Darwin’s “Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyages of H.M.S.Beagle round the world, second edition.

With several interesting articles, political, poetic and literary. Among which is also “Mary Mansfield, Or Ireland Ten Years Since”.

The Volume, published at the outbreak of the Famine, is the last reflection of an already shaken country which is entering a fate-altering few years.

The Union Magazine – Volume I [All published under this title]

Following articles are included in this very rare 1845-Volume:

1. The Position and Prospects of Ireland in 1845
2. Mesmerism – Miss Martineau’s Letters
3. Memoir if Leix Castle, Queens Country (related to the Frontispiece)
4. An Irish Queer Fellow – Peregrin Glass
5. Mary Mansfield, Or, Ireland Ten Years Since
(a continuation story through several issues of this Volume, including chapters titled “The Ghost”, “The Trial” etc.)
6. Narrative of some Military Events in Scinde, Beeloochistan and Afghanistan during the Years 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 and 1843 by John H.Hall, Esq. (H.M.‘s 40th Regiment) Nephew of the Late Captain Basil Hall (continued through several issues)
7. A Free and Easy Translation of the First Scene of the Andrian of P.Terentius
8. To L.E.L. in 1828 (A fancy Sketch)
9. The Irish Poor Law / Poor Laws (Limerick Union)
10. “Sketches of Character” – by the “Elderly Gentleman″
11. “The Country and the Town″
12. “A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift’s Box” (with a page of Illustration of Jonathan Swift’s Snuff Box)
13. ‘Tis a Hundred Years Since″
14. “The Difficulties of a Young Clergyman in Times of Division” – London, 1844
15. “A Report to the Lord Bishop of Meath on the State of Elementary Schools in the Diocese, and the Opinions of the Clergy respecting the question of National Education” By the Rev. Edward A. Stopford, Archdeacon of Meath; with a Correspondence between the Lord Bishop of Meath and the Home Secretary on the Subject of the Report, Grant and Bolton, Dublin 1845
16. “On National Schools – A Tract for the Times in Ireland – By an Ulster Clergyman” – W.Curry, Jun. and Co. Dublin, 1845″
17. “The Irish Art Union″
18. “Luna by Day” by Jean Paul (Fr.Richter)
19. An Anglo-Latin Account of a Steam Journey from Dublin to London in 1845 (A short Poem in Latin)
20. Foreign Travellers

and many more articles

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Irish History – Rare · Irish History in the 19th century
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32226AB

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