[Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Absolutely scarce and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan.

Collection of Works by and on J. Sheridan Le Fanu. The collection includes 16 titles in 23 Volumes: 1. The Eight-Volume-Set of Collected Supernatural & Weird Fiction of J.Sheridan Le Fanu (2010 – Edition) / 2. W.J. McCormack – Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland (1980 – Edition) / 3. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – The Cock and Anchor – Edited by James F. Wurtz (2010 – Edition) / 4. Alfred Perceval Graves – The Poems [of] Joseh Sheridan Le Fanu (2008 Reprint of the 1896 – Edition) / 5. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – Guy Deverell (Unabridged Reprint of the 1866-Edition (Dover, New York, 1984) / 6. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – Haunted Lives (1998 – Edition) / 7. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – Willing to Die – A Novel (Facsimile of the 1876 – Edition) / 8. J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Madam Crowl’s Ghost and other Tales of Mystery (Nonsuch Edition from 2006) / 9. J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Wylder’s Hand (2009 Edition) / 10. J. Sheridan Le Fanu – The Purcell Papers (1975 Edition) / 11. J. Sheridan Le Fanu – The Tenants of Malory – A Novel (Reprinted from the Dublin Magazine) / 12. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O’Brien – A Tale of Wars of King James (Facsimile of the Original Routledge-Edition) / 13. J. Sheridan Le Fanu – A Strange Adventure in the Life of Miss Laura Mildmay – A Tale from Chronicles of Golden Friars – With an introductory note by Herbert van Thal and a Frontispiece – Illustration by Felix Kelly – First published in 1871 in 3 Volumes in “Chronicles of Golden Friars”. First published as a separate Story in this edition here present: (London, Home and Van Thal, 1947) / 14. “A Stable for Nightmares” – J.Sheridan Le Fanu and Sir Charles Young [Includes: Dickon the Devil – A Debot of Honor – Devereux’s Dream – Catherine’s Quest – Haunted – Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse – The Phantom Fourth – The Spirit’s Whisper – Doctor Feversham’s Story – The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts – What Was it ? (Echo – Edition, 2009) / 15. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – Two Weird Mysteries (″The Murdered Cousin” & “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family”) – Modern Edition – Aegypan Press, c. 2006 / 16. J.Sheridan Le Fanu – The Purcell Papers (Volumes 1,2 & 3) – Echo Library – Edition, 2006 //

First Edition. London, Downey & Co., [1895]. 8°. More than 5000 pages. Original Hardcover and Softcover-Editions. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only the rare 1947-Edition of “A Strange Adventure”, with some stronger signs of wear.Including free Courier shipment worldwide.

Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho.

First Edition. 4 Volumes [complete set]. London, Printed for G. G. and J.Robinson, 1794. Octavo. Collation complete with all four half-titles: Volume I: 428 pages / Volume II: 478 pages / Volume III: 463 pages / Volume IV: 428 pages. Original, unaltered, 18th-century half leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. All four bindings with vintage paper-covered boards and their original, reinforced corners. The set is now housed in a custom-made solander-box / clamshell-box. Excellent, firm condition of all four volumes with minor lesions to hinges and some rubbing to extremeties only and some general, neglectable external wear to corners and upper spines. In Volume I, two sentences partly censored with manuscript editing in ink. Interior very good with the occasional lesion (I, p.109), minor tear (II, p.93), and stains to a page here or there and a faded, very mild dampstain in the background of some pages of Volume IV. Two excellent provenance signs: Bookplate / Exlibris of “William Tennant, Ashton Hall” to the pastedown of each Volume / Previous owner-stamp of “O.W.O’Grady Young – Castlerea”. A fantastic, in this state, unbelievably rare version, of one of the most desirable books in the english language. The seminal gothic novel, a most desirable collectable and the best copy of this first edition we have ever handled.

6. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho – A Romance; interspersed with some pieces of Poetry.

First Dublin Edition / First Irish Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. Dublin, , by Hillary and Barlow, for Messrs. P. Wogan, W. Jones, and H. Colbert, 1794. Small Octavo (17.5 cm x 11 cm). Collation complete: Volume I: 310 pages / Volume II: 321 pages / Volume III: 357 pages. [Few pages with misprinted numerals, as often the case, but all pages in order and complete]. Original, unaltered, 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very rare, complete set of the first Dublin Edition. Very good- condition with stronger signs of external wear but all three Volumes in firm, original condition. Lesions to the leather-covered-boards and some stronger rubbing to extremeties. Interior with only very few problems. All three Volumes used to have two endpapers before and after the text and some of these endpapers are torn or missing. Textblock in general very good with some very minor and only occasional staining only. In Volume I, tear to corner of page 101/102 and 135/136. Faded stain to only the outer margins of pages 239 to 310 (text never affected). Volume II with small tear to pages 21/22 / Volume III with lesion to page 281/282 and tear to corner 305. These all sound worse than they are and the set is still in very good- condition. From the library of the Meade family in Ballymartle, the titlepage of each Volume bears the name of Helena Meade. An extremely rare and highly collectable set of one of the rarest titles in english literature.

33. Robinson, Mary.

Walsingham; or The Pupil of Nature, A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author of Angelina – Hubert de Sevrac – The Widow – Vancenza, &c. &c.&c.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce !

20. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !

19. Smith, Charlotte.

Desmond – A Novel in Two Volumes.

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, W. McKenzie, H.Colbert, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1792. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). VII, 276, 306 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings rubbed with loss to labels. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

22. Smith, Charlotte.

Montalbert – A Novel.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1795. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 270, 276 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.