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GRADY ( Thomas ). No. III. or, The Nosegay ; being the third leter of the Country Post-Bag

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GRADY ( Thomas ). No. III. or, The Nosegay ; being the third leter of the Country Post-Bag

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
GRADY ( Thomas ). No. III. or, The Nosegay ; being the third leter of the Country Post-Bag, from the Man to the Monster. By Thomas Grady, Esq. author of The Barrister, and of several other popular productions. The second edition, with additions. Dublin : Printed for the Author, 1816FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, with 6 engraved plates by Brocas, including portrait and plate of music ('Nelly Cusack'), pages x, (11) - 108, (2), complete with the half-title, 8vo, original boards, old neat rebacking in cloth, new endpapers : neatly inscribed on title-page in a contemporary hand "6 March 1816 / BN / FS" : a very good to nice copy. A ferocious verse satire, dedicated to Thomas Moore, on George Evans Bruce, a Limerick banker of shady antecedents. Bruce successfully sued for libel and secured damages of fifty pounds. O'Connell was Grady's counsel at the trial. Sooner than pay, Grady fled and died c. 1820 in either Brussels or Boulogne. First published 1815, without plates and of just 26-pages, this second edition contains considerable additional material. Complete in itself, 'No.1' being an entirely different work and 'No.2', as far as we know, was never published.IRISH LITERATURE; VERSE; DUBLIN PRINTED; LIMERICK; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;