Accession number
PML 145751
Creator
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Published
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square."--Colophon.
Vol. 9 of a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by an unnumbered supplemental volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Vol. 9 of a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by an unnumbered supplemental volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Description
xii, 719 p., [2] leaves of plates : port., facsim. ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of James Corry; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple morocco tooled in gilt and blind by George Mullen (jr.) of Dublin, ca. 1830; bound as v. 9 of a set of uniformly bound first and early editions of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry (see PML 145743-56).
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