Mac nevin thomas macnevin (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo, 250 p. Original decorative light card covers. Upper and lower covers laid down on new endpapers, new matching backstrip, half-title, title and first few leaves lacking small forecorners otherwise a VG copy. First edition. Very scarce in first edition, no copy on WorldCat, only two on COPAC. Duffy's Library of Ireland. Light book, postage will be reduced to cost on processing.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Reprint edn of James Duffy, 1846 1stedn; Small Octavo. Bound in original brown cloth with gilt lettering. Extremities worn and chipped, spine sunned. Binding cracked in several places but intact. Pages firm, back endpapers have slight dampstain. Ex-St Charles Seminary Library with the usual treatments. Ow G/ndj: 260pp. Thomas MacNevin (1814-1848) was an influential Irish writer and journalist, who died under "peculiarly sad circumstances" in a Bristol asylum. he was one of the most "brilliant intellects" to be associated with The Nation newspaper and with the Young Ireland movement. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Large post8vo, [viii], xxiii, 305 p. Contemporary brown half calf, marbled boards. Professionally recased retaining the old endpapers and with a new calf backstrip, the old chipped lettering piece is added, mainly faint damp stain affecting the lower quarter of the book otherwise a VG copy. First edition, first issue. There was a second issue with fewer pages and most of the long list of errata in the first issue corrected. Articles mainly by Mac Nevin and Emmett, here styled Mac Neven and Emmet, two key United Irishmen on the 1790s. Included is Mac Nevin's full account of his own testimony to the 1798 Secret Committee taken from his contemporary notes as opposed to the edited version printed by the Committee. Also included is a report on the Penal Laws prepared for the United Irishmen by Simon Butler.…