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Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm, xiv, 281 pp, [8] pp of plates. From the blurb - "Tom Moore has been unjustly neglected. He was Byron's favourite friend and wrote the first Life. His melodics are still among the loveliest songs in the language. Sir John Betjeman has recently said that some of his lyrics are better than Byron's. Apart from this, the entry of a grocer's penniless son from Dublin into Regency society is a unique success story. Moore said of himself that he was something of a show child. Tiny - he never grew to more than five feet - he charmed all who came his way. He was contributing poetry to magazines at thirteen. In Trinity College Dublin he made a figure, and took part in debates with Robert Emmet, against whom he refused to give evidence after the Rebellion of 1798. While in Trinity he made translations of Anacreon. With these in his pocket he went to London, aged 20. Within six months he was made free of the London drawing-rooms, where he sang his own songs, accompanying himself. The Prince Regent accepted the dedication of his first poems. He laughed with Sydney Smith, listened to Macaulay, rollicked with Byron; and when Sir Walter Scott took him to the theatre in Edinburgh, the audience rose to its feet and cheered first their own hero, then the Irish one. Moore is often criticised for having agreed with John Murray, the publisher, to the burning of Byron's Memoirs, which had been given by the poet to Moore to edit after his death. Mr White's book makes clear that Moore was not either in a position to prevent the destruction or in favour of it." Top edge slightly dust-stained, otherwise Good in slightly used dustwrapper.…

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Damask table linen has adorned festive dining tables since early modern times. These pure white tablecloths, napkins and hand towels, patterned with discreet, but artfully drawn pictorial compositions and coats of arms, served as status symbols in princely and bourgeois households. Almost all linen damasks of the sixteenth and seventeenth century were woven in the Spanish Netherlands or the United Provinces, from where they were exported throughout Europe. From the eighteenth century onwards, linen damasks were also woven in Scotland, Ireland, Sweden and Russia. This volume presents the papers of an international colloquium hosted at the Abegg-Stiftung in 2021, which brought together scholars to discuss linen damask in its historical context, drawing on surviving table linen, household inventories and pictorial representations. …