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PLOWDEN ( Francis Peter ). A postliminious preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland

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PLOWDEN ( Francis Peter ). A postliminious preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
PLOWDEN ( Francis Peter ). A postliminious preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland … containing a statement of the author's communications with the Right Hon. Henry Addington, and some of his colleagues, upon the subject of that work ; some strictures upon the falsities of The British Critic ; and other anonymous traducers of the Irish nation ; and also some observations on Lord Redesdale's letters to the Earl of Fingall. Second edition. Dublin : Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 180480-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrappers : a very good copy. Plowden's Historical Review, sponsered by the government, supported the Act of Union and sought to refute Musgrave's allegations that the 1798 insurrection had been a Catholic conspiracy. This preface, published later and separately, is decidedly uncommon.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) [TICKELL ( Richard )]. An English green box : or, the green box of the R-t H--e E--d L-d Churllow, given by the celebrated Mrs. Harvey to Roger O’Tickle ... With occasional remarks by the editor. Dedicated to the Right Hon. Edward Lord Thurlow. Dublin : Printed by R. Marchbank, for the company of booksellers. 1779. FIRST IRISH EDITION, 96-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : with some some light browning, but a very good copy with many of the names identified in a contemporary hand. While ESTC locates some eighteen copies of this Dublin edition, only three of them are in the USA : CSmh, RPJCB, and IU. "This sattire on Lord Thurlow, in imitation of Richard Tickell's Green Box, contins a number of references to the American conflict." - Adams, 79-29c.(2) JEBB ( Richard ). A reply to a pamphlet, entituled Arguments for and against an Union. Dublin : Printed for William Jones, No. 26, College-Green … , 1798. FIRST EDITION, pages iv, 67, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper : a very good to nice copy. McCormack R9. When the possibility of abolishing the Irish parliament was being discussed, Jebb published this pamphlet, a rebuttal of the views of the under-secretary, Edward Cooke. In a work widely read in several editions that year, Jebb predicted that the abolition of the Dublin parliament would injure the local economy greatly if ‘principal nobility’ and ‘first gentlemen’ no longer had to reside either in their constituencies or in Dublin. He suggested, in an effort to sway government opinion, that the Irish parliament might give up the right to differ from the monarch over declarations of war and similar matters. He argued that not all catholics could be blamed for the rebellion ; instead, he blamed revolutionary theorists and the pernicious influence of the French republic. Even though he opposed the union, his moderate and clearly argued work impressed the government ; he declined the offer of a seat in the post-union parliament at Westminster (CDIB).(3) RUDD ( Pemberton ). An answer to the pamphlet entitled Arguments for and against an Union, &c. &c. in a letter addressed to Edward Cooke, Esq, secretary at war. Dublin : Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street 1799 [recte 1798]. FIRST EDITION, pages 35, (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper : a very good to nice copy. McCormack A16.(4) [COOKE ( Edward )]. Arguments for an against an union, between Great Britain and Ireland, considered. Dublin : Printed for J. Milliken, 1799. FIRST IRISH EDITION(?), pages (2), 58, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : the title-page evenly dusty and the final leaf misbound to follow title : a very good copy. "An examination of some variants strongly suggests that Milliken's 1799 imprints preceded the December 1798 ones. Burnside's edition was a piracy." - McCormack A24. "This pamphlet, which was taken to represent views held in higher quarters, called forth many replies. It is a temperate examination of the problem, resting the case for the union on grounds conciliatory to all classes of the Irish people. Large concessions to the Roman catholics are foreshadowed as the natural sequel to a measure which, in other ways, the writer did much to forward. He was the intermediary in most of the transactions, questionable and otherwise, by which legislative support was obtained for the Union Act" - DNB(5)HISTORY; IRELAND; DUBLIN PRINTED; ; ENGLISH PRE 1801; AMERICA; UNION; ; ; ; ;