Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
EDGEWORTH, RICHARD LOVELL and MARIA. Essay on Irish Bulls. Satirical engraved vignettes and initials depicting bulls. 12mo, 3/4 speckled calf gilt with red and grown spine labels by Bayntun, Riviere; scattered soiling to preliminaries and endleaves, some early ink writing on title; large bookplate from the Haverty Collection of Irish Books. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1802

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first edition. Edgeworth defends the English of Ireland as superior to that of England, and being "the language of Shakespeare." Sadleir 788; NCBEL III, 667.