The United Irishmen; Their Lives And Times.: Second Series. 2 volumes

London: J. Madden & Co., 1842, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimos; 452. 538 pages, full calf, extra-gilt spines, marbled edges and endpapers, covers rehinged. some foxing, small tear to map at gutter; ex libris John Sheepshanks, 1852: he was a businessman, art collector, philanthropist.. Scarce - especially the large map, for which I find no sales records since 1915!

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 second of three series in the complete work. With an excellent, large, fold-out map, in color: " Ortelius Improved, or a new map of Ireland ... " The folding map republishes the 1777 map which Charles O'Connor published bearing the names both of the English and Irish proprietors in the beginning of 1700. It contains all the names of the conspicuous and illustrious families of Ireland." With 8 portrait engravings in vol.2; the Contents calls for 8 plates in vol. 1, which are lacking (?) here, but they are also lacking from the digitized copy from Dublin. Vol. 2 has these: Thomas A. Emmet, James Napper Tandy, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, another of Emmet, Henry Jackson, Dr. William James Macneven (the last survivor of the original leadership of the movement, and a source for Madden), Arthur O'Connor, Henry Joy M'Cracken.