De Búrca Ra re Books second part, lithograph portrait frontispieces, with a further nine lithographed portraits, four plates, woodcuts in the text. Spine rebacked. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Rare. €695 An appealingly eccentric work, full of curious information. In the first part of the work, the text proceeds to page 76 before suddenly breaking pagination to incorporate Sketches of the Life of Captain Grose, Grose's Rules for Drawing Caricatures and An Essay on Comic Painting. A second title is then inserted, but then continues with the sequential pagination that preceded the second title. "It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title ... It is an extremely curious and amusing work and deserves more attention than it has received".
385. WESTROPP, Thomas Johnson. The Ancient Places of Assembly in the Counties Limerick and Clare. Illustrated. Dublin: Reprinted from the Journal of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1919. pp. [1], 24. Blue printed stitched wrappers. Inscribed and titled on upper cover to "Mungret College / With T.J.W's compliment". Also with the latter's stamp with address 115, Strand Road, Sandymount. A very good copy. €35 386. WEYGANDT, Cornelius. Irish Plays and Playwrights. Portrait frontispiece of W.B. Yeats and other illustrations. London: Constable, 1913. pp. x, 314. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on half-title. Minor wear to corners. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €95 387. WHYTE, John. The Reform of Stormont. A New Ulster Movement Publication. This pamphlet is designed to stimulate informed debate in Northern Ireland and in Great Britain on the need to change Northern Ireland's political structures as an essential part of uniting our community. Belfast: 1971. pp. [16]. Stapled printed wrappers. T.W. Moody's copy with his signature on upper cover. A very good copy. €15 FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION 388. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. pp. 312. Quarter Publisher's vellum over pale blue boards. Original printed dust jacket, frayed at edges. A very good copy. €375 Black and white illustrations by Paul Thiriat each with captioned tissue guard. With the publisher's insert stating that the book, although dated 1908, was only published now [1910] because of the Artist's ill health. Listed in The Observer's All-Time 100 Best Novels.
389. WILSON, T.G. A Hitherto Undescribed Death-Mask of Dean Swift. Dublin: Reprinted from The Journal of Royal Society of Antiquaries, 1951. pp. 107-114. Blue paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. Complimentary copy signed by the author. Small tea stain to front cover, otherwise a very good copy. €45 390. WOULFE, Rev. Patrick. Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall. Irish Names and Surnames. Collected and Edited with Explanatory and Historical Notes. Kansas: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1992. pp. xlvi, 753. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €65 In his introduction Rev. Woulfe states: "It is now nearly twenty-five years since I began to collect Irish names in one of the large towns of Lancashire. At that time there was still, in most of the industrial 96