Please Note This Early Deadline for Receipt of Bids

Auction 72 To take place on 14 June 2014

Please post bids to Peter McGowan:

Nethergreen House, 9 The Green, Ruddington, Notts NG11 6DY

Or email: , to reach him Friday 6 June 2014.

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If two bids of the same amount are received for a lot, then the bid received

first will take precedence, so early bidding is desirable.

All lots now carry reserves, either at a default value of 75% of the estimate

or at an undisclosed figure set by the seller.

No bid will be accepted below the reserve. Take into account that some of

our estimated prices appear rather too modest, and may be well overbid.

NB See the members’ page of our website for images of all of this material.

Abbreviations IBP & IBPS – Irish Book Plates, by H.F. Burke and its Supplement,

which illustrated (no text) the Edward Lyons pattern book.

IMD – A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors, by Dr E. Martin.

BLGI – Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland.

Arm – armorial; Chip – Chippendale; Cor – Coronet; Cst – Crest; Fes – Festoon;

Gart – within a Garter (motto collar); Jac – Jacobean; M – motto; Mant – on a

mantle; Mod – modern; Pict – pictorial; Loz – lady’s lozenge; Sp – spade; Sh –

shield; Supp – with supporters; and combinations thereof.

est. £

1 Arm with Celtic knot background, Murrough O’Brien, by Robert Osmond (#359

BNL checklist). Proof on thick card, before signature [WPB 1911]. Slight foxing.

2 C.20th pict with books & signs of zodiac, F.M. Ireland. Not Irish, but how could a

plate with this name be omitted from this sale?

3 Ulster king-of-arms. Small printed label: ‘This Work is the Private Property of

Sir Bernard Burke [1814-92]. Tullamaine House, Dublin, 29 September, 1886.’

4 Most unusual C.20th blind-stamped armorial with printed border: Ex Libris Adm. Rev.

Ricardi G[eorge].S[almon]. King M.A., Decani Derensis (Dean of Derry).

5 Robert Gibbings: Ex Libris Owen Rutter. Quill pen across a palm tree for the author

& journalist, 1889-1949, partner with Gibbings in Golden Cockerel Press.

6 Robert Gibbings: pict of book & quill pen. Universal for The Book Society

7 Celtic cross, lake, rising sun. Ex Libris Mary Herbert (b. Mary Gertrude dau of

4th Viscount de Vesci (Irish peerage). She m. son of Earl of Carnarvon.

8 1843-1912 Greene’s Library Dublin. Pict of oak tree, books below.

9 Full arm, 2 crests, 3 orders, William Charles De Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam, sgd: J

Vinycomb MRIA 1920; Arthur Fredk. Sharman Crawford Sgd: JV 1900. (2)

10 Marchioness of Londonderry. Her portrait in an oval, cherub to left, books below.

11 C.18th anon full arm of Viscount Down (Dawnay). F.8177.

12 Printed label: Coleraine Academical Institution. To [Samuel Graeme Connor]

Having obtained [Second] Place in the [Junior 6th] Form, for the half-year ending

[Midsummer 1883] This Premium Is Awarded by [P.G.Houston MA] Principal.

13 M.P. Grace (Michael Paul, 1842, Queenstown, Co. Cork – 1920, London), small

pict dated 1906 of gateway to Battle Abbey (which he owned). Another on grey

paper plus 2 labels with his London address, 40 Belgrave Square. International

businessman active in Peru, USA, UK. See Wikipedia. (4)

14 C.19th arms: Edw.A. Fitz Gerald, mountaineer (ODNB) NIF; C.L.D. Duckworth,

cst (Scottish not Irish but later MS note “Dublin 1949”, NIF; William Horatio

Crauford, Lakelands, Cork F7289; Augusta Castletown of Upper Ossory, full arm

NIF; Frank O’Donnell Finigan NIF; George Skeffington Connor, arm, Dublin &

Canada QC 1810-63, NIF. (6)

15 The Right Honble Robert [Needham] Lord Viscount Killmorey 1704, early arm

F.21607/F*589. He d.1710.

16 Cresswell Pigot, large Chip pict arm, F23606 [19thC re-use of plate of Charles].

17 The Royal Dublin Fusiliers – etched arm. Sgd: V Thorne ‘01

18 GH Johnston: William Chamney, Schomberg, Bray, Co.Wicklow, 1910. Arm.

19 Pict: Philip O’Farrell, arm library interior; Ambrosii J Moriarty, woodcut arch,

ruins & text; MacCarthy Mor – Prince of Desmond – MM, church. Bogus title,

see [homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/chiefs/clandermond.htm] (3)

20 Overstreet Grogan, spade shield arm, angel on clouds. Sgd: E Lyons. F12949.

Bottom lefthand corner cut away, patched but part of ‘O’ is lost.

21 2 picts for John Vinycomb MRIA Belfast, 2 cherubs, monk in scriptorium; arm

with ‘J Vinycomb’ in pencil. (3)

22 Vinycomb: arm for Richard Southcote Mansergh, Tipperary; pict arm S. Rouviere

Day 1896. (2)

23 C.19th arms: Jeremiah O’Leary NIF; Fitz-Gerald and Vesci in garter F10619;

Benjamin Lee Guinness NIF; Edward Leigh White, Bantry House NIF (4)

24 C.19th arms: Drew (with long interesting text) F9064 surface scuffed; William

Macartney McCay NIF; James Behan Murtagh F21440; Maurice FitzGerald-

Stephens-Townshend of Castle-Townshend, seal arm F29712. (4)

25 C.19th arms: Wm. Henry Carter Esqr Castlemartin F5286; Patrick S. S. Hassard

Drutamon House, Bailieboro’ F14041; George Elder, Knock Castle NIF; John

Lewis More O’Ferrall, Lisard, Co. Longford. NIF (4)

26 C.19th arms: James Perry, Obelisk Park, Dublin NIF & William James Perry.

Mosstown. NIF (both from same copper); Archbishop of Cashel [Brodrick] by

Warwick F3835; Magrath F19456. (4)

27 C.19th arms: Charles J T Conolly (m. dau of Prince Ruffano of Naples) F6633;

Fitz-Gerald and Vesci in garter F10619; Patrick S. S. Hassard Drutamon House,

Bailieboro’ F14041; William McIlwraith NIF. (4)

28 Henry Bellingham Chip arm F2168. MP Co Louth, d.1755. IBP#7 = by Lyons.

29 Sr. John Percivale Baronet of Burton in the County of Cork in Ireland 1702. Early

arm. F23291.

30 The Right Honble Henry [Boyle, cr 1756] Earl of Shannon, Chip arm F3387; Earl

of Shannon, F.3388. (2)

31 Trinity College Dublin Jac arm premium plate, MS date 1744.

32 Mod arm for Leonard G Wilkinson. Sgd: Nevile Wilkinson.

33 Marchioness of Londonderry. Portrait, cherub, books. Large size, large paper.

34 Thomas William Carson (noted Irish bookplate collector) small arm by Leighton.

35 Erne Crom Castle [Crichton, 2nd/3rd/4th earl) arm NIF; De Burgh Earl of

Clanricarde arm F8330; c.1810 pict arm, anon but of Lucius O’Brien F22161 (3)

36 Lord Walter FitzGerald, curious mod pict arm

37 Richard Southcote Mansergh arm by Eve with Seize Quartiers; mod pict for

Kilkenny Archaeological Soc. (2)

38 WP Coyne MA pict by T FitzPatrick 1897; John R Conor MA 19thC arm NIF;

James J Nagle Dublin, crest & Celtic design in purple; Kilkenny Arch. Soc. (4)

39 Henry Burgh, Chip arm but mod paper, F4400 reworked; Earl of Shannon crest

F3388; James Behan Murtagh arm F21440; George Rothe F25558. (4)

40 M[ary]. Verney Fermanagh, loz supp F30328; Walter Butler, Gart F4667; John

Page Sibthorp Esqr Drogheda, mantle arm NIF; Earl of Shannon crest F3388. (4)

41 Rev K.H. Macdermott ARCM, pict of church in dec border, Sgd: F 29.6.27; Francis

O’Farrell, pict of sailing ship; Kilkenny Arch. Soc. (3)

42 Thos. Baldn. St. George Esqr. Jac arm F25951 (restrike, mod paper of F25944).

43 Two Trinity Coll Dublin Jac arm premium plates, dated in MS 1749 and 1762 with

significant changes in the copper. (2)

44 Carton Library [Fitzgerald Duke of Leinster], Chip arm sup F10616; Chas. Benj.

Caldwell New Grange, Co Meath, 19thC mod Jac arm F4869. (2)

45 Jack B Yeats (1871-1957): picts, John Quinn and Irene Greene Dwen Andrews

[Pace] (1892-59; US collector) on grey paper (she was educated in Dublin). (2)

46 Same artist: Irish text [Kevin O’Duffy] Dun Emer Press, pict of workman leaving

home, too busy to read his books. See Lee’s British Bookplates. Pencil note

on back: “Rough proof of bookplate. £3.10- for 500 prints this price includes

design” and “K Rasmussen” (Danish collector). Cut close. Choice item.

47 Same artist: pict of Viking by tree & arms, Eiblin Odette & Irish text, wife of Wm

O’Connor. Sgd: Cuala Press.

48 Irene Dwen Andrews, pict Sgd: RFS [Ralph Fletcher Seymour, USA, 1876-1966,

see Wikipedia]; same plate for her as in Lot 45 but on cream paper. (2)

49 Johannis Roberti O’Connell MA LLD, pict arm, arch, ruins, Celtic border.

50 Robert Anning Bell: Geraldine Countess of Mayo, art nouveau pict 1894 of girl

with ‘cello and another standing, small version, paper size 110x75mm.

51 Gilbert Nicholson of Balrath in the County of Meath Esqr. 1669, but on wove

paper. Classic plate with misleading date.

52 19thC Trinity College Dublin prize label with MS date 1861.

53 CW Sherborn: Robert Day JP FSA MRIA & PRSA High Sheriff of Cork 1893

President of the Cork Archaeological Soc 1902, pict arm printed in red.

54 Chip trophy arm for Ralph Ward, oval cut round so lacks inscription, V4289, see

Latcham p.61; Charles Daly MD, festoon arm F7895, IMD p.36 (? By Lyons). (2)

55 William Downes, urn arm F8986 (see also Lot 142); James Murray pict by Vinycomb,

small size (see also Lot 197); Louise Fitz-Patrick small label. (3)

56 2 issues of The Bookplate Booklet, ed Alfred Fowler, Kansas City, Vol.1, 1919 &

March 1920, pp1-24 (lacks cover) & pp49-64. Articles on “The Cuala Press and its

Bookplates” and James Guthrie writes on “Bookplates by Henry J Stock RI”.

57 Jack B Yeats: Madeline Jones, pict of pirate at sea.

The next 17 lots come from ‘an Irish collection’, maybe of a C.19th engraver. Too little is known

about their provenance to be sure whether or not these items all came from a single workshop in Ireland.

Somewhat grey and faint, so possibly hand pulls. Each is NIF unless Franks number stated. These

Lots 58–74 are subject to special terms of sale – see Lot 75.

58 Henry Arkwright, Cst&M; C. Neville Bagot, ShCst&M; A.F. Baker 5, Clare Street,

Dublin, Label; Honble P.B. Blaquiere ShCst&M F2806; Benjamin Bloomfield,

ShCst&M; Robert Lynch Blosse, ShCst&M, F2871. (6)

59 Chichester Bolton, ShCst&M, F2988; [Space blank for the Christian name] Browne

Esqr. Brown’s Hill. Sh&Cst; R. Clayton Browne Esqr. Brown’s Hill. Sh2Csts&M

F4074; George Burdett Esqr. Longtown House. Sh2Csts&M F4364;

Peter Burtchaell. CstGart; Arthur Cane. ShCst&M. (6)

60 Richard Cane Esqr. Cst; Thomas Carmichael. ShCst&M; Sir Benjamin Chapman

Bart. ShCst&M; Collins. CstGart (Deum atque regem colens); Robert Collins.

F6465; [Cooper] pencilled attribution. CstGart (Deo patria rege). (6)

61 Coyle. ShCst&M F7173; Rev. Charles Crossle. CstGart; Arthur Herbert Curtis.

CstGart; Revd.Robert Delap. 2Csts2M; Jacobi J. Dempsey. Engraved label; Sir

Compton Domvile Bart. Sh2Csts&M. (6)

62 John P. Ferrier CstGart; Richard S. Fetherstonhaugh. CstGart; Fitzgerald. ShCst&M

(Crom a boo); Charles L. Fitz-Gerald. CstGart; WH Fitz Gerald. ShCst&M; Thomas

Fox, Kilmartin. Shield in wreath & motto. F11161 (6)

63 John Trevor Fox. CstGart; Montmorency Frankfort, full arm for viscount; R.

Gardner, Ashley, Clyde Road. Cst in shield outline; Thomas Gillilan, CstGart;

Denis Godley, Cst&M and badge of the Bath; Cahir Guillamore, full arm for

viscount. (6)

64 Jon Trant Hamilton M.P. ShCst&M [1st Baron HolmPatrick who m.1877 gddau

of Duke of Wellington; Sigarros Superior de Havanah & ‘a Las armas de

Espana.’Shield, coronet surrounded by ribbon and badge of the golden fleece. Not

a bookplate; Honble. Cecil R. Howard, ShCst&M; Elijah I. Hudson, Cst&M;

William Izod, ShCst&M; Sir Edward H. Hudson-Kinahan, Bart. full arm. (6)

65 Charles J Knox, CstGart; Edward Kough, CstGart F17376; Langford. Summer Hill

House, crest & Baron’s coronet; Low, Francis. CstGart; Mr. Lyster, arm spade shield

& wreath; [McClintock in pencil]. ShCst&M (Virtute et labore). (6)

66 John M. Maguire, ShCst&M; Robert John Martin, A.M. T.C.D. ShCst&M; George

Emilius Meara, ShCst&M; William L. Meares, Meares Court. Sh2Cst&M; Alexander

Montgomery, CstGart; Alexander Montgomery, Bessmont Park. ShCst&M. (6)

67 [Moore, Tipperary] Mooresfort. Initials ‘C.C.M.’ CstGart; William Mulroney,

Cst&M; John Murray, CstGart; [Deane] Lord Muskerry, Festoon crest; Amb.

O’Ferrall, Balyna Co. Kildare. ShCst&M; John Lewis More O’Ferrell, Lisard Co.

Longford. Sh2Csts&M. (6)

68 H.Gordon Palmer, CstGart; Sir Robert Joshua Paul, ShCst&M; William Pennyfather

Esq. ShCst&2M; John Henry de la Poer, Fifth Marquis of Waterford 1875. Full

arm. F2295; James Galbraith Pooler, B.A. ShCst&M; [Power of Corheen] arm (Per

crucem ad coronam). (6)

69 George Price, ShCst&M; P.V. Purcell, ShCst&M; John Goddard Richards,

ShCst&M; Andrew Douglas J. Robinson, ShCst&M; Henry Roe, ShCst&M; D.I.

Rowan, ShCst&M. (6)

70 William Ryan, CstGart; Francis Robert Sandys, CstGart F26096; F.S.[Shaw] Initials

in garter F26608; Sheane. ShCst&M (Atibus et armis); José de la Sierra, Sh&Cst; G.

Rowland Smith, CstGart. (6)

71 Suirdale [Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of Donoughmore], CstGart; F.J. Synnott,

ShCst&M; Edward Taylor, ShCst&M; Revd William Tew, ShCst&M; Chas R.C.

Tichborne, ShCst&M F29457; Hugh Morgan Tuite, Sonna. Shield & wreaths. (6)

72 Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse. Manor of St John. Full arm. F32759; [Crichton] Eme.

Crom Castle. Full arm; John. Netterville Fallon. ShCst&M; Jeffery Foot, Esqre arm

in clouds F10872; John Edward Herrick, Sh&M Sgd: Green-Cork; Keogh. Kilbride.

ShCst&M. (6)

73 Revd. Thomas Perceval Magee, arm & wreath on clouds F19451; [Sullivan in pencil

? O’Sullivan] arm & Baronet’s badge; [Sullivan] same arms as last item but smaller

size; [Wolseley in pencil] full arm; Robert Tyndall, Belle-vue Parc. Cst&M; Laurence

A. Waldron, Dublin, mod festoon arm. (6)

74 Dudley Waller, ShCst&M; [Waller]. ShCst&M (Hae fructus virtutis) 12 quarterings

F30699; Walsh. ShCst&M; Philip Perceval Warburton, ShCst&M;

John Robert Watson, ShCst&M; Edward Breton Wolstenholme, arm. (6)

75 GOLDEN BID: THIS IS AN OVER-RIDING BID to enable Lots 58-74 to be

kept together. If, as Lot 75, your bid for all 102 bookplates exceeds 85% of the

total hammer price for the preceding 17 lots, then you win the whole set, but on

condition of keeping these together as a collection. NB: 17 x £15 x 85% = £217

76 Very large mock-Chip arm in blue with cherub & farmyard animals. Amazing &

curious engraving for Irish bookplate collector William Chamney,

77 Jac arm for John Putland (1709-73 of Bray) F24335. Mutilated with Esqr erased.

78 Bookpile, arms on mantle for William Christmas Esqr. Sgd: E Lyons Ex. F5831

79 Seashore pict arm for Florence O’Brien, Sgd: EA Greene 1894. F22151

80 Charlotte R Mansergh, Friarsfield, Tipperary, arm loz. Sgd: C.Helard.

81 Trophy arm for George Digby Daunt, F8042; arm in garter for Revd. Edwd Herbert

Kenney F17004. Both plates sgd: Green Cork. (2)

82 James Trail DD Lord Bishop of Down & Connor. Festoon arm F29734. Damaged

83 Jac arm for The Revd. Mr Pat StClair, F25940

84 Superlibros, gold on brown book leather, Coll. Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Reg.

Elizab. Juxta Dublin [Trinity College Dublin]

85 John Magill of Gillhall in the county of Downe in the Kingdom of Ireland Esqr.

F19453. Typical “Brighton book” Early arm.

86 J E Geoghegan, pict of monk reading. Sgd: WMG [Wilhelmina Mary Geddes] 10

87 Pict of the Minstrel Boy dying on battlefield for American-Irish patriot Michael J

Redding, Sgd: H Gamse & Bro.Litho.Balto.MD. [Baltimore]; small label. (2)

88 Marquiss of Donegall [Chichester], crest on mantle. F5732.

89 Lord Leitrim [Clements], full arm. F6050.

90 E.F. Bourke, festoon arm, F3203.; Edmund F Bourke, arm Sgd: T Welch sc. F3205;

Edward Roden Bourke, large ModFesArm, Sgd: GM 1890 (by Geraldine Countess

of Mayo with a suggested coronet over the G. She was 1st dau. of Hon Gerald

Henry Brabazon Ponsonby, a noteworthy collector of bookplates). (3)

91 C.19th arms: Philip Reade Esq. Wood Parks Cos. Galway & Clare. F24681-3; Sir

Benjamin Morris, Waterford. F21139. Damaged; John Jebb DD FRS Bishop of

Limerick Ardfert and Aghadoe. F16335; William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands,

Cork. F7289; Emo Park Library [Dawson-Damer, Earl of Portarlington], arm supp

NIF; Gilbert George Kennedy, seal arm, (Scottish? By Willement ?); Thos Cobbe,

(1733-98; see BLGI), Chip arm, (7)

92 Richardus Warburton De Garrihinch E Com Regis infra Regnum Hiberniæ

Armiger, fine Jac arm, NIF; T.R.Robinson, 19thC wreath arm, F25310. (2)

93 Jac arm John Rochfort (with field arg); Shanly, 19thC eared shield. Both NIF. (2)

94 Thomas Burgh, festoon arm F4404 (?Lyons); Francis Butler, eared shield in garter

& wreath, F4639; Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, full arm, NIF. (3)

95 Frederici Trench de Heywood comit regin, spade sh & sword, F29784; Anon eared

shield for Baron Trench, F29781; Thomas Cooke-Trench, seal arm. F29785; Capn

Le Poer Trench RN CstGart, NIF [Rear-Admiral 1771-1846]. (4)

96 Sought after: Edith Castlereagh, pict arm Sgd: WPB 1910 but by Robert Osmond.

97 Morough O’Bryen, c1740 trophy arm. F22158. See Latcham p.111.

98 Anthony Foster, Sp Sh trophy arm. NIF. V1525. See Latcham pp.106-7.

99 Gilbert Fitzgerald, Chip trophy arm, F10634. See Latcham p.89.

100 Edward Roche Esqr. of Trabulgan. Fine trophy urn arm. NIF. See Latcham 127.

101 [Irwin] Tanrego in the Couny. of Sligo [1768 in MS]. Superb, classic Chip allegorical

trophy, sgd: J. Taylor sculpt. F16104.

102 Trophy arm: George Digby Daunt by Green of Cork F8042. See Latcham p.156.

103 Lyons Book: Theophilus Desbrisay. Very fine Jac trophy arm. F8519.

104 Jac arm George Daunt F8041. Some damages. Surgeon 1712-86. See IMD p.37.

105 Chip arms: anon F32327 Arthur Wolfe, Lord Kilwarden [murdered Dublin 1803];

anon FitzGerald NIF; Richd. Leech F17934, late print on wove paper. (3)

106 George F. Todderick. c1780 Spade shield wreath in floral oval. See IMD. F29538

107 Pict of ruins: Richard Caulfield L.L.D. Fellow Soc. Antiq. London, Corresp. Mem.

Soc. Antiq. Normandy Cork 1820. F5402 [=F5401 w/out engraver’s sig.]; William

Caulfeild, 19C arm impaling Smith F5398. (2)

108 Thomas William Carson [by John Leighton] F5253. The medium size 105x73mm

109 [Butler] Ormonde & Ossory, full arm, damaged, NIF; Ormonde, Arm Mant, NIF;

Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, full arm; an ‘O’ in a wreath, coronet above , printed

in sepia, NIF V3076. (4) The 3 arms are within collar of St Patrick.

110 Very nice Jac arm of Southwell Pigott de Kilfenny in Com. Limerick, Arm., F23619.

Tear in paper at top right platemark.

111 Chip full arm [Moore, Earl of] Drogheda F20961, good margins, slight stains.

112 [Sir John Rawdon] Earl of Moira, Chip full arm. (cr earl 1761) F24602, but note this

has 2 holes; [Maxwell] Lord Farnham, C.19th full arm, F20073/5; Lord Farnham KP,

arm F20076. (3)

113 Laurence A. Waldron (of Dublin), Chip arm on bright red paper. Mod re-use.

114 John Mitford Int.Temp.Et.Hosp.Linc.Soc., spade sh on beaded oval, Sgd: Neele