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SPARKS, JARED. The life of George Washington. Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, 1839. First edition. Three-quarters red morocco, red cloth spine. 9 5/8 inches (24 cm), top edge gilt. Frontispiece, xx, 562 pp, extra-illustrated with the addition of some 60 plates, inlaid to size where required. * BECKFORD, PETER. Thoughts upon hunting in a series of familiar letters to a friend. London: James Toovey, 1881. Later edition. Full red morocco by Bayntun, with gilt hunting motifs. 8 5/8 inches (22 cm), top edge gilt. xiv, 254 pp., extra-illustrated with the addition of about 40 plates, some colored. * MASON, WILLIAM SHAW. Survey of Tullaroan, or Grace's Parish, in the cantred of Grace's Country, and county of Kilkenny. Dublin: printed at the Faulkner Press, 1819. One of 50 copies, stated. Full brown straight-grain morocco, gilt. 160 pp., with numerous illustrations (many in lithography, some copper-engraved), extra-illustrated with about 25 plates. Some wear to joints etc. on all volumes, a chip to the label of the third
The last work is an interesting and fairly early example of Irish lithographic illustration.