11. Keener, Frederick M.

English Dialogues of the Dead – A Critical History, An Anthology, and A Check List.

New York / London, Columbia University Press, 1973. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 302 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.

The Critic. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Robert Herring.

London / New York, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. / St. Martin’s Press, 1963. 12 x 18cm. (32), 92 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth. Binding and boards in very good condition, pencilled underlining and annotations to text. Ex-library, label affixed to front endpaper. [English Literature Series].

15. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.

The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts.

London / Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., No Date (c.1931). 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm. VIII, 72 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight discolouration and foxing to endpapers and covers. Crease marks evident on several pages. Crack to the bonding evident on title page but book block and cover very much intact. [The Nelson Playbooks Edited by John Hampdon, M.A. (No.105)]

16. [Smollett, Tobias] Kelly, Lionel.

Tobias Smollett – The Critical Heritage.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. 22.8cm x 14.5cm. XVII, 380 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

17. [Steele, Richard] Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [With four engravings by F.Haymandel / C.Grignion].

Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J.Buckland, H. Woodfall, etc., 1764. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Frontispiece, [2], 300, [14], Frontispiece, [3], 336, [13], Frontispiece, [5], 318, [16], Frontispiece, [7], 320, [12] pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful, bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

18. [Swift, Jonathan] / Taylor, W.D.

Jonathan Swift – A Critical Essay.

London, Peter Davies, 1933. 14.7 cm x 22 cm. 312 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Good- condition with definite signs of external wear. Cracks to rear hinge of spine. Binding still good and firm. Bookblock tight and square. Sun-fading evident. Edges dust-toned. Minor foxing also. Very minor tears to some preliminary pages. Interior unmarked.

19. Vanbrugh, Sir John.

Sir John Vanbrugh, In Two Volumes. Volume I. Edited by W.C. Ward.

142 of an edition of 750 copies printed for England and America. Volume one of two volumes. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893. 16 cm x 23 cm. LXXVIII, 397 pages. Illustrated on frontispiece with engraving by J. Faber, 1727 after a portrait by J. Richardson, 1725. Modern Hardcover (Recent, modern Maroon cloth, label from original binding on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilt top, deckled edges.

20. Zimmermann, Johann Georg [Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann].

Ueber die Einsamkeit [On Solitude].

4 Baende (komplett). Frankfurt und Leipzig, [ohne Verlagsangabe], 1785. Klein-Oktav. XL, 328, [8 nn.], XL, 442, [12 nn.], XVI, 430, [6 nn.], XXXII, 416, [8 nn.] Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Halbleder des 18.Jahrhunderts. Alle Baende in sehr guter Erhaltung bis auf einen kleinen Schaden am oberen Kapital des 3.Bandes. Durchgehend minimal stockfleckig. Restaurierte Wurmspur auf einigen Seiten des 3.Bandes. Wahrscheinlich ein zeitgenoessischer Raubdruck dieser bedeutenden Publikation ueber die Melancholie.