MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND RICHARD MANT : LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND OF DROMORE, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THOSE DIOCESES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

Mant, Walter-Bishop

Published by McGlashan and Gill, Dublin, Ireland, 1857

About this Item

Octavo, 9 in. x 5.8 in., pp. xv, 467. Brown pebblecloth boards with decorative floral frame stamped in blind. GIlt title to spine. Rubbing to edges; fraying to bottom spine end. Sunning to spine. Light spotting to preliminary pages. Previous owner's name, dated 1923, to title page. Occasional pencil underlining in opening two chapters. Closed tear across rear free endpaper. Walter-Bishop Mant (1807-1869) was the Rector at Hillsborough, County Down, and Archdeacon from 1834 to his death. It was in 1827 while at university in Oxford that Mant was initiated into Freemasonry, joining Apollo University Lodge No. 357. He was an Antiquarian, prose writer and poet. (from Irish Masonic History).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT REVEREND RICHARD MANT : LORD BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND OF DROMORE, WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THOSE DIOCESES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
• Publisher: McGlashan and Gill, Dublin, Ireland
• Publication Date: 1857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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  • Irish and Ireland