The history of Ireland from the invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary discourse on the antient state of that kingdom

by Thomas Leland

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: T. Longman, and G. Robinson, and J. Johnson, 1773. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, early full tree calf neatly rebacked, old morocco labels and numbering pieces preserved; a very good, sound set. With the signature on the title pages of volumes I and II of Joshua Reynolds, the premiere portraitist of the eighteenth century. Covering the period from the invasion of Henry II in the 12th century to the capitulation of Limerick in 1691, Leland's history is

• Binding: Leather

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