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[Buckley, Robert John].
Ireland as It Is and as It Would be Under Home Rule.
Publisher: Birmingham Daily Gazette Company Limited, Birmingham;
Date of Publication: 1893
Stock Code: 7066
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xii, [2], 415, [1], [4] Index. Frontispiece map in colour with tissue guard. Publishers’ bottle green cloth with bevelled boards, border in blind to boards and gilt titles & decoration to spine and upper board; all edges stained red. Publishers prospectus: “What Unionist Leaders Think of the Book” loosely inserted. Lower cover a little stained to upper corner; spine tips and corners rubbed. A few faint fingermarks to prelims and tissue guard foxed, otherwise contents clean. A Fine Copy. Sixty-two letters written by the Special Commissioner of the Birmingham Daily Gazette between March and August 1893, anti- Gladstone in tone and stating that civil war would result following Home Rule. Scarce. £80.00