NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONTESTED ELECTION FOR THE COUNTY OF DOWN IN THE YEAR 1830; WITH THE SQUIBS, PLACARDS, SONGS, &c. &c. ALSO WITH THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE DOWN ELECTOR, AND NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE SAME (WITH FOLDOUT POLITICAL CARTOONS)
Belfast, Ireland: Henry Lanktree, 1830. Leather-bound. Rebound brown half-leather with gilt tooling, raised bands on spine with gilt tooling/lettering. RARE with all five plates (5 plus frontis), including large folding plate "Denvir's Hotel" Downpatrick. A few stray blue pencil placeholding marks. Previous owner's name (John Henry Blaney) and address
(1135 Ellis Street, San Francisco) to first, and final blanks. Near Fine. Item #85268
"A satire on the corpulent Mathew Forde (1785-1837) of Seaforde, Co. Down, see No. 16227. He was Col. of the North Downshire Militia. The allusion in the quotation from Richard III is to his second marriage (1829) to Lady Harriet Savage, a widow. Burke, Diet, of the Landed Gentry, 1847."
Price: $1,150.00