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III. 



LIST OF ALL PAMPHLETS, BOOKS, &c., PPwINTED IN COEK 

 DUEING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTUEY. 



By E. E. McCLINTOCK DIX. 



[Read April 22. Published June 3, 1912.] 



In submitting to the Academy the following list of Cork printing in the 

 seventeenth centviry, I desire to preface it with some observations. 



The list contains a brief collation of every item of printing extant, or 

 known to have existed from reprints, or stated to have been printed in Cork 

 by such authorities as Ware and Cotton, or other authorities equally good. 



Outside Dublin there was little printing in the seventeenth century in 

 Ireland. There was printing in Belfast during the last few years of the 

 century. All that is known on that subject appears in the list of " Belfast- 

 printed " books and the two or three supplements to it published by the late 

 Mr. John Anderson. 



In Waterford and in Kilkenny there was a good deal of printing for a 

 short period in the seventeenth century — namely, during the time of the 

 Catholic Confederation and the two or three years immediately succeeding it. 



In Cork, however, printing during this century was small and, as appears 

 by the following list, consisted, so far as is at present known, of forty items, 

 spread over fifty -six years of the century. There was, no doubt, much more 

 printing than that, which has perished, but more may yet come Lo light. 



The object of the following list is to put on record in chronological order 

 all that is at present known of the output of the Cork presses of that period. 

 It will be seen at a glance that the chief activity of those presses was in 

 the years 1648-50, with occasional items after that, until the end of the 

 century. 



Nearly all the items in the list are rare, and some copies are unique. No 

 copy of the first item exists, nor is it known who the printer of it was. 



Items 2 to 14 represent printing done in Cork by the Eoyalist party. 

 With the exception of item 9, no printer's name appears in any of these 

 items. 



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