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MOORE, THOMAS. Irish Melodies. Additional title and decorative borders throughout by Daniel Maclise. Apart from letterpress title, preface leaf, and end matter, entirely engraved throughout. 4to, original bevelled cream boards printed in green and gold with shamrock border enclosing center roundel showing woman playing harp (front cover) and publisher's monogram (rear cover), spine ends and cover corners bumped, minor wear to bottom edges of covers; contents clean. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846
first maclise edition, in the original boards, "one of the finest covers of the early Victorian period, probably designed by Owen Jones"--McLean (1983), page 30. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England 29 ("a landmark . . . in the history of style").
