[MULLEN, George, binder]. CASTLEHAVEN, James Touchet, Earl of. The Earl of Castlehaven's Review, or his Memoirs of his Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars: With Lord Anglesey's Letter, Containing Observations and Reflexions Thereon. Dublin: George Mullen, 1815. 4o. Large paper (light dampstaining). Contemporary straight-grained dark green morocco, covers with a wide gilt roll-tooled border of oak, shamrock leaves and acorns, with a large shamrock leaf in each corner, enclosed in a double fillet, surrounding a large block of "Grolieresque" strapwork stamped in blind, spine in six compartments elaborately gilt, lettered in two compartments, g.e., green morocco turn-ins roll-tolled with an elaborate palmette design, gilt ornaments in each corner, blue paper doublures and flyleaves by GEORGE MULLEN OF DUBLIN (light wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Hibbert sale, 1829 (ink notation on preliminary blank); Peter Hall (bookplate). Presumably only 30 large paper copies were printed.

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[MULLEN, George, binder]. CASTLEHAVEN, James Touchet, Earl of. The Earl of Castlehaven's Review, or his Memoirs of his Engagement and Carriage in the Irish Wars: With Lord Anglesey's Letter, Containing Observations and Reflexions Thereon. Dublin: George Mullen, 1815. 4o. Large paper (light dampstaining). Contemporary straight-grained dark green morocco, covers with a wide gilt roll-tooled border of oak, shamrock leaves and acorns, with a large shamrock leaf in each corner, enclosed in a double fillet, surrounding a large block of "Grolieresque" strapwork stamped in blind, spine in six compartments elaborately gilt, lettered in two compartments, g.e., green morocco turn-ins roll-tolled with an elaborate palmette design, gilt ornaments in each corner, blue paper doublures and flyleaves by GEORGE MULLEN OF DUBLIN (light wear to joints and edges). Provenance: Hibbert sale, 1829 (ink notation on preliminary blank); Peter Hall (bookplate). Presumably only 30 large paper copies were printed.

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