4. O’Connor, Roger / O’Connor, Arthur – [Provenance: Henry Daniel Conner – Manch House].
Roger O’Connor & Arthur O’Connor – Collection. A set of five Titles (in six Volumes) from the Library of Henry Daniel Conner and Daniel Conner at Manch House (Ballineen / Dunmanway]. Rare Volumes connected to the History of the Brothers Roger O’Connor [″Chronicles of Eri”] and Arthur O’Connor [″United Irishmen”]. From the 18th-19th century library at Manch House. The collection includes: 1. [O’Connor, Roger] Captain Rock – Letters to His Majesty, King George the Fourth. [This is the Volume owned by the Conner – Family of Manch House and it bears the Bookplate of Henry Daniel Conner] / 2. O’Connor, Arthur [United Irishman] & O’Connor, Roger [Irish Nationalist and Publisher of The Chronicles of Eri] / 3. G.B. O’Connor – O’Connor, G.B. Irish and other Fragments. [Includes the following essays: Irish Ethical Problems / Marshal Saxe and Diminishing Populations / The Irish Republican Demand / The Anglo-Saxon Myth / Irish Facts and Foreign Fictions / The Irish and the Law / Some Anglo-Irish Writers / A National Delusion / The Irish Lord Lieutenant]. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., no year (c. 1920). Small Octavo. 73 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare book ! / 4. [O’Connor, Arthur / United Irishmen] Hayter-Hames, Jane. Arthur O’Connor, United Irishman. Cork, Collins Press, 2001. 24 cm. xi, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear / 5. [Fox, Charles James] / [Arthur O’Connor] / Trotter, John Bernard [Late Private Secretary to Mr.Fox] Memoirs of the Latter Years of the Honourable Charles James Fox [with a lengthy report on a meeting with Irish Revolutionary Arthur O’Connor in Calais]. Third Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1811. Includes a longer section in which John Bernard Trotter discusses a chance meeting of Fox with irish Revolutionary, Arthur O’Conno, in a section called the “Independent conduct towards Mr.O’Connor [Arthur O’Connor, brother of Roger O’Connor]: “An incident occured at Calais, which as it excited much remark, and roused a good deal of censure at the time, I shall advert to more length than would otherwise be necessary. It happened that Mr.Arthur O’Connor had arrived at the inn at which we stopped very shortly before. He waited on Mr.Fox, was received by him with that urbanity and openness which distinguished him, and was invited to dinner by him, which invitation he accepted of. It is is well known that, after a long confinement at Fort George, he, and some other Irish gentlemen, agreed with the Irish Government to expatriatethemselves for life. Mr.O’Connor was now on his way to Paris accordingly; when chance brought him to Quillac’s Inn, at the same time with Mr.Fox. His manners were extremely pleasing….” Trotter continues at length to elaborate on the meeting and conduct of Arthur O’Connor, their subsequent visit to the Theatre and three other times of meeting in Calais.
Dublin / London, 1797-1828. Octavo. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. See full description of these titles on our website under “Libraries and Collections”.