Oeuvres Mêlées En Prose Et En Vers. HAMILTON (Anthony).

THE EARL OF GRANARD'S COPY

Woodcut title-page vignettes.

Seven volumes. 12mo. [145 x 86 x 156 mm]. [2]ff, xxviii, 269, [2] pp; [2]ff, 286, [1] pp; [2]ff, 293pp; [2]ff, 292pp; [2]ff, 275pp; [2]ff, 333pp; [2]ff, 227pp. Contemporary Irish bindings of tree calf, the covers with a gilt chain roll border. Smooth spines divided into five panels by gilt pallets lettered in the second on a red goatskin label and numbered in the fourth on a green goatskin label, the first and fifth with a flower centre, the third with an urn, the edges of the boards hatched in gilt, marbled endleaves, green edges. (Short crack in upper joint and small patch of insect damage in lower joint of vol.1, small hole in upper joint of vol.2, more extensive insect activity to both covers of vol.3).
[Liege & Spa: de l'Imprimerie de F. J. Desoer, Libraire], 1777

The title is taken from the half-titles. Each volume has a part title, beginning with Mémoires Du Comte De Grammont. The imprint is taken from the final page of the last volume. A very good clean copy in a classic Irish binding of the period, with some characteristic insect activity confined to three covers. With the large initial "G" bookplate of George Forbes (1760-1837), 6th Earl of Granard, of Castle Forbes, Co. Longford, with printed shelf-labels. The library was sold at Sotheby's, 21/7/1993.

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