Collectanea Politica; Or the Political Transactions of Ireland, From the Asseccion of His Majesty Knig George the III. To The Present Time; Containing an Impartial Statement of Parliamentary Proceedings, From The Year 1760, to The Establishment of a Legislative Union with Great Britain. A Circumstantial Account of The Late Rebellion; With the Principal State Trials in Consequence Thereof: And a Compleat View of Public Affairs in This Country During the Last Forty Years. In Three Volumes.

Collectanea Politica; Or the Political Transactions of Ireland, From the Asseccion of His Majesty Knig George the III. To The Present Time; Containing an Impartial Statement of Parliamentary Proceedings, From The Year 1760, to The Establishment of a Legislative Union with Great Britain. A Circumstantial Account of The Late Rebellion; With the Principal State Trials in Consequence Thereof: And a Compleat View of Public Affairs in This Country During the Last Forty Years. In Three Volumes.

Author: Seward, William Wenman (d. 1805)

8vo.(5" x 8") 1804. Seward, William Wenman. Dublin. Alex Stewart, and Mr. Philips, et al. Full brown treecalf. Spines with six compartments separated by fancy gilt rule, blindstamp title to second compartment, blindstamp vol# within oval gilt device centered to the fourth compartment. All edges reddened. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to some tips, head and foot of spine chipped with small loss. The first compartment of spine to vol.I lacking 2/3 (see pic), a .25" x .25" chip to fourth spine compartment of vol.II. Covers bumped and rubbed, vol.III with 2 tiny chups to leather. Dampstain to head of page to last half of textblock of vol.I, a little darker dampstain to the lower half and corner of vol.II to the final 2/3 of text block. Title pages stained, some foxing.

From the Web: Seward, William Wenman (d. 1805), attorney and writer, may have been born in Dublin. Little is known of his family or early life. In May 1776 he was admitted as an exchequer attorney at King's Inns, Dublin, and from c.1782 he lived at Prussia St., conducting his legal practice from there. He later moved to 151 James's St., where he lived briefly and shared premises with a Thomas Seward, perhaps his son or nephew, who was a solicitor in chancery. He died at this address in 1805, probably in December. During his lifetime he achieved some fame as a political and topographical writer. He was active on the fringes of the Volunteer movement in the 1780s, publishing The rights of the people asserted and the necessity of a more equal representation in parliament stated and proved (1783). His more famous publications were, however, topographical writings. In 1789 he published his Hibernian Gazeteer: being a description of the several roads, market, post and fair towns in Ireland. This A–Z of Irish towns was an immediate success and provided not only useful information for the traveller but also a brief history of Ireland. Buoyed up with this success, he later wrote that ‘the general approbation with which the plan of the Hibernian Gazeteer was favoured by the public, induced the author to pursue it on a more extensive scale’ (Topographia Hibernica, introduction). In 1795 he published his Topographia Hibernica: or the topography of Ireland, antient and modern, giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom. A product of prodigious research and scholarship of considerable accuracy, it was well received. In an extended list of the towns of Ireland, Seward provided historical information on each place named and further appendices on the civil and church administration in Ireland. It was dedicated to the duke of Leinster (qv) and included some very fine illustrations of prominent historical monuments in Ireland and also a highly detailed map. Seward's last major publication was Collectanea politica: or the political transactions of Ireland, 1760–1803 (3 vols, Dublin, 1801–4), an impartial and considered treatment of major political events of the late eighteenth century, dealing primarily with the growth of the Volunteer movement and the passing of the act of union.

We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookselleratgmail.com, we may just have it!

Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey.

Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit or email us at sidekerbookselleratgmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks!

Find Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Sonny-Ideker-Bookseller-Rare-Antiquarian-Leather-Vellum-Bound-Books-100068669041560/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonnyIdekerBookseller/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonny_ideker_bookseller Flickr: https://flic.kr/ps/2v6pn4 Website: https://sonnyideker.weebly.com/ Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book That Rare Book Guy Sonny Ideker City Antiques & Interior Arts Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association Colette French Pastries