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imprints. These have not been given in the Appendix, nor have the 

 London editions of such well-kno^vn authors as Ussher, Sir James Ware, 

 Bishop Bedell, Care^, J. Denham, Sail, X. Bernard, H. Dodwell, 

 George Walker, Richard Cox, ^N". Brady, William ^lolyneux, George 

 Story, and George Farquhar. Works printed in Dublin are also omitted, 

 as they are appearing in " List of Books, Tracts, &c., printed in Dublin 

 in the Seventeenth Century." To do full justice, indeed, to Sir J. T. 

 Gilbert, all the titles and collations should be given completely ; but 

 this is not feasible at present. 



On the occasions when these papers were read, there were 

 exhibited by the author some photographs of title-pages or other pages 

 out of some of the works particularly mentioned by him. These 

 photographs unfortunately cannot now be traced, but others are here 

 reproduced, some taken specially for this publication. The three 

 sentences within square brackets in the first paper appear in the MS. 

 in sucli a way as to make it doubtful whether they Should be included 

 or not ; but they are inserted here as appropriate rather than otherwise. 

 In his second paper. Sir J. T. Gilbert refers to an Appendix in which 

 he gave particulars of the productions of some Irish typographers other 

 than the King's printer. Unfortunately this Appendix is not now 

 forthcoming ; but in Appendix C to this paper an attempt has been 

 made to afford some information on the point, and to supply imperfectly 

 what Sir John T. Gilbert had done previously. 



Facsimiles of a few title-pages appear at the end as illustrations 

 of printing in Ireland during the period covered by Sir John T. 

 Gilbert's papers. 



FIRST PAPER. 



Read 22 June, 1896. 



It is to be regretted that no comprehensive work has yet been 

 published on Irish Bibliography from the time of the invention of 

 printing to the nineteenth century. An Irish Bibliography should, I 

 submit, contain precise details in relation to the printed works of 

 Irish authors as well as in reference to publications in connexion with 

 Ireland, or printed in Ireland. The preparation of such a bibliography 

 would be an undertaking of more than ordinary difficulty. Many 

 important works by Irish authors, or in relation to Ireland, were 

 written in Latin, French, or Italian, printed on the Continent, and 

 are now rare, costly, and in some cases unobtainable. To read here a 

 catalogue of books, with minute particulars in connexion with each 



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