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Sigerson, George.
History of the Land Tenures and Land Classes of Ireland, with an Account of the Various Secret Agrarian Confederacies.
Publisher: M’Glashan and Gill; Dublin,
Date of Publication: 1871
Stock Code: 12725
Hardcover octavo; pp., 333, plus two pages of advertisements to end. Publisher’s finely pebbled purple cloth; cartouche within triple-ruled border in blind to covers. Two different ownership inscriptions in ink, one to front paste-down, the other to front free end-paper. Binder’s stamp of Cavenagh, Dublin to end. Sunned to spine, continuing to edges of lower board. One tiny internal tear to bottom of lower joint. A few spots of foxing to half-title. Contents annotated in pencil. A good copy. A history of Ireland from ancient times to the mid-nineteenth century, written by Irish poet, senator, essayist, and neurologist George Sigerson. Sigerson held meetings in his home in Dublin with other cultural nationalists including W.B. Yeats, Roger Casement, Patrick Pearse, and Roger MacDonagh. £50.00