Ireland, The Protestant Ascendancy, Talbot of Belfast and Mi...

Hammer

£300

Ireland, The Protestant Ascendancy, Talbot of Belfast and Mickleham's Annotated Family Bible - three parts in one: The Holy Bible [...], [issued with and prefixed by] The Book of Common Prayer and [...] Psalter or Psalms of David, both parts Oxford: John Baskett, 1738, [the Bible issued and illustrated with] Sacred Geography Contained in Six Maps [...], London: Richard Ware, 1725, BCP & HB with re-issued engraved frontispieces and additional title-pages bearing Richard Ware's imprint, each part printed in parallel columns, 6 fold-out engraved maps of the Holy Land, engraved biblical narrative plates, the front free endpapers enclosing 3pp of ink manuscript inscribed by 'Sir Charles Henry Talbot, Bt., [...] [who] records on the fly pages herein, between the years 1750 to 1797, various information about his children, grandchildren, and relations, including the dates upon which his children were inoculated against small-pox by such pioneers in this practice a the Baron Dimsdale' (the latter being a rare insight into domestic medicine within the Georgian aristocracy, particularly viz. vaccination), contemporary red morocco binding (tired, rubbed, spine split), the covers and back gilt in the Harleian manner, the former enclosing black morocco onlays gilt with the Cross and IHS christogram, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 4to, [1]

Provenance: Sir Charles Henry Talbot, 1st Baronet of Belfast, Co. Antrim, & of Mickleham, Surrey, (1720-1798); thence by family descent, sold by kind permission of The Right Honourable The Earl of Shrewsbury, DL.