History of The Civil Wars of Ireland, Anglo-Norman Invasion till The Union

Description: History of The Civil Wars of Ireland, From the Anglo-Norman Invasion, till The Union of The Country With Great Britain. In Two Volumes. Author: Taylor, W.C. (1800-1849) 16mo. (3.75" x 6")1831. Taylor, W.C. Edinburgh. Constable And Co. and Hurst, Chance and Co. 2 volumes. Full green publishers' cloth. Spines with illegible paper title labels with series/vol#/title/author(?) towards head. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to two lower tips, Head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny, closed tears and a little loss to heads, covers soiled and stained, spines sun-darkened, paper label illegible with chips. Hinges starting, covers still firmly attached. Both volumes illustrated with engraved title pages. Light dampstain to upper corner of Vol.II, through first half of text block. Early booksellers marks to front pastedowns, Vol.I. with bookseller's stamp to front pastedown. From Wiki: William Cooke Taylor (1800-1849) was an Irish writer, known as a journalist, historian and Anti-Corn Law propagandist. He is best known for two works The Natural History of Society (1841) and Factories and the Factory System (1844). In the early 1840s he toured the northern English industrial centres and wrote considerably for the Anti-Corn Law League and his observations of the factories of Manchester and Bolton provide a firsthand account of the depression at that time. In 1843 he became the editor of Anti-Corn Law's The League. He was extremely hostile to chartism and his defence of child labour in factories on the grounds that it was preferable to starvation. He published profusely throughout his career, writing on religion, history and a number of biographies, most notably that of Sir Robert Peel. In Irish politics Taylor was a Whig, fiercely critical of the Penal Laws and supporting Catholic emancipation but believing that continued union with Britain would bring about rapid political and economic modernisation. He was a strong advocate of the professedly non-denominational National School system, and his economic and religious views were heavily influenced by Richard Whately. Cooke Taylor was on friendly terms with Thomas Davis, whom he respected as a fellow-Trinity graduate, but in 1847-8 he engaged in government-sponsored journalism denouncing the Young Irelanders as communists and was accused by Charles Gavan Duffy of having been hired to defame his country. This was unjust; while Taylor worked as a hired pen, it was for causes that he believed in. He returned to Ireland for the last two years of his life where he worked as a statistician for the Irish Government before he died of cholera in 1849. 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

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