THE UNITED IRISHMEN; Their Lives And Times.: Third Series. 2 volumes: volumes 1 & 3 only of 3

Dublin: James Duffy, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimos; 418. 318 pages, full calf, extra-gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, one cover detached. some foxing; ex libris John Sheepshanks, 1852: he was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist.

This work covers the years 1760-1820. Wolf Tone and others, inspired by the French Revolution, organized in 1791 to throw off the English oppressors., resulting in the 1798 Rebellion, which was crushed by British forces. Madden made it his focus to assemble original sources to report fully on these Irish participants. This is the third of four series in the complete work.It contains all the names of the conspicuous and illustrious families of Ireland." With 10 portrait engravings. "It has been very generally complained of, that the arrangement of the materials of the preceding series is defective. I acknowledge the defect; but had it been wholly avoided I must have dealt with original documents and authoritative statements, in a way that would have taken from their value - namely, by omissions and transpositions of matter [which] ... would have taken from the real value of the work, which consists of a large amount of unbroken information of an authentic kind" - Notice.