This is the edition of the complete works of William Hogarth produced by James Heath in 1822.
Ceachta Beaga Gaedhilge II
Many of the generation involved in the War for Independence, such as the McSwineys in Cork, learned their Irish through this book.
Iosagán agus Sgealta Eile
This story was part of a self-conscious attempt to establish a prose style based in spoken rather than archaic, literary Gaelic, and in it Pearse explores the child’s world
Pádraic Ó Conaire, Síol Éabha, 1921.
A collection of short stories by Pádraic Ó Conaire, pioneer of the Irish Literary Revival
An Mháthair
This collection of short stories, some of which had been previously published, was put together by Padraig Pearse in November 1915, and published in early 1916
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The second edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare illustrated by the great Arthur Rackham. It contains 40 colour plates and 34 line drawings and is considered one of his masterpieces.
Don Quixote
Cervantes Don Quixote Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. (illustrated by Gustave Doré),1867 Cloth binding, gold lettering Published in quarto format by Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London around 1867, this is the second edition Don Quixote, the first in a single volume. The 9.5 pound monster has approximately 750 pages and contains 370 illustrations. Doré [...]
Subsidium Animabus in Purgatorio
This beautifully bound little book discusses topics seen as important for orthodox Catholics in the seventeenth century, such as the location of Purgatory and what can be done for the people in it, as well as the issue of intentions in the use of indulgences.
Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality
A collection of belles lettres, ranging from classic authors such as St. Jerome, Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger), Aurelian the Emperor (Marcus Aurelius), and Queen Zenobia, to ‘a large collection of original letters of love and friendship
Belles Lettres
Charles Rollin (1661-1741) was a French historian and educator and rector of the University of Paris for 2 years. Belles Lettres explains the method of teaching and studying literature
Histoire de France
This revised edition of a book by the French Jesuit Père Gabriel Daniel (1649–1728), first appeared in 1713, and became a major source book for the history of the French monarchy.
Histoire du Regne de Louis XIII
This attractive book is volume 5 of a 12-volume history written by Michel Le Vassor, (1646–1718), a French Protestant, historian, and critic of Louis XIV
Cours Entier de Philosophie
This book is impressively designed, with a rubricated and illustrated title page, some woodcut headpieces and relatively modern looking typography.
Poems On Several Occasions
Thackeray described Prior’s work as ‘amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems.’
Tacitus
This book, from 1682, is set in a beautiful late renaissance style Pica Roman, with the dedicatory preface in italic and is decorated with woodcuts head and tail-pieces and decorative initials
The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler was first published in 1653, but Walton continued to add to it for a quarter of a century. It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse
A Tour of Ireland
This book by Richard Twiss from Rotterdam was one of the most controversial of the late 18th century because of its negative view of Ireland
This Body Real As You See Me/That Body Real As I See You
Sioban Piercy’s exploration of the book as an art object has been internationally recognised and this is a unique set of four books with inkjet printing and hand worked ink drawings
The Original & Complete Works of Select British Poets
Cooke’s Pocket Edition of the Original & Complete Works of Select British Poets (Smollett & Johnson) C. Cooke, London, 1796-7 Calf binding with gilt twisted rule on covers, tooled and gilt spine, red title label, marbled endpapers, illustrated. 9.5 x 15 x 1.5 cm. This book was probably originally sold in separate numbers, as it [...]
Historia de la Conquista de Mexico
This once very popular little book, set in a modern type, is by the Spanish baroque dramatist and historian, Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra
Principles of Physiology
This impressively bound and well illustrated volume was a standard physiology textbook in its day, written by William B. Carpenter (1813-1885), a professor of physiology, with a strong commitment to scientific reason.
Proceedings of the Irish Convention, 1918.
The full report and detailed appendices of the proceedings of the Irish Convention, and was published in April 1918.
Poetical Works of Campbell & Goldsmith
A classic piece of high Victoriana in design, the book features the work of Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) , a Scottish poet mainly remembered for his sentimental poetry.The work of Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) is presented as an additional text, and includes his famous The Deserted Village.
Venetian Life
This book has a self-consciously Arts & Crafts feel about it, with its binding of quartered cloth over parchment, rounded spine, red page edges and very nice proportions. This copy is inscribed as a gift from W.W. Asquith, elder brother of HH Asquith, Liberal prime minister of the UK from 1908 to 1916
Book of Tea
Catherine Yorke is a recent graduate of the BA (Hons) in Design in Visual Communications at the Athlone Institute of Technology. Her focus in her final project was to create a visual exploration on the theme of tea
Judith MacNamara, Sketchbook
Judith MacNamara is a final year student in the part-time BA Art and Design course in GMIT Castlebar, and part of her practice involves the use of old books as a raw material for paintings
Fluxus Island
A box set edition containing 20 silkscreen prints, 23 x 29.5 cm. event cards, an island survival kit, a rubberstamp, artistamps, tickets, a painted postcard and various objects
Fluxus Assembling Box Nr. 13
Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and objects in the fluxus manner with contributions from 23 invited artists from 11 countries.
Chaussures de Paris
Handpulled screenprinting accordion book between 2 painted and printed wooden covers
