Whytes Whyte (3 results)
Language: English
Published by Whyte's, Whyte & Son Auctioneers., Dublin 2010
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Well illustrated. See my other listings for more similar catalogs.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Patrick Scott; Pauline Bewick; Robert Ballagh; Camille Souter; Daniel O'Neill; Louis le Brocquy; Jack Butler Yeats; Harry Clarke; Maurice McGonigal; Graham Knuttel et al. Includes selection of works from The Lady Gregory Collection, Coole Park, Co. Galway. Fully illustrated 159 page Catalogue fe…aturing 277 Lots; quality production and useful reference work for art in Ireland.
More imagesModern Education; or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Causes and Effects of our Errours and Deficiencies in that Particular. With Practical Proposals for a Reformation. In the Course of which The Female Right to Literature is asserted ; The Supercilious Airs of Vain Pedants Exposed ; Their Wise Objections Exploded ; And the Trite Witticisms, Usual on the Question, Fairly Stated and Confuted : Clearly Demonstrating, That the Weakness and Depravity imputed to the Fair Sex, is wholly owing to our utter Neglect of their Minds ; and that the proper Cultivation of them is the First and Grand Principle of all Human Excellence, as well as of all our social and domestic Felicity. [Bound with: "Lectures On The Art of Reading ; First Part: Containing
[Whyte's School Dublin] / [Whyte, Samuel] / [Sheridan, Thomas].
Published by Dublin, Printed by R.Marchbank, Cole's Alley, Castle-Street. 1775
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First Edition. Small-Octavo (11.2 cm wide x 17.2 cm high). Pagination: Whyte's "Modern Education." is bound to the rear of the Volume: 77 pages plus "Corrigenda" (complete" / Sheridan's "Lecture on the Art of Reading - Part I" is bound at the start of the Volume: vii, (1), 213 pages plus 1 page "Advertisement" [of Whyte's "Engli…sh Grammar-School" in Dublin, Grafton-Street, No.75"]. Hardcover / Original, full 18th century leather with gilt ornament and new spine-label in the style of the 18th century. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely scarce title ! Samuel Whyte (1733-1811) Born on shipboard between Ireland and Liverpool; cousin of Francis [Chamberlaine] Sheridan, raised by the Sheridan family in Dublin; opened his famous school at 75 Grafton St. in 1758; 'Whyte's School' became alma mater to R. B. Sheridan, the Duke of Wellington, and Thomas Moore - who eulogised him early with the lines 'hail heaven-taught votary of the Muses nine .'; Donovan, the Latin ussher at his school, was an ardent patriot (acc. Stephen Gwynn, Thomas Moore, 1905); ed., Shamrock or Hibernian Cresses (1772) containing poems of his protegés and later a selection of same as Poems on Various Occasions (1792; rev. 1795), heavily subscribed and twice reprinted, containing verses by his pupils and others, incl. Hall Hartson, Thomas Moore and Thomas Dermody; provided guide to pronunciation for 1798 edition of Dr. Johnson's English Dictionary; also Miscellanea Nova (Dublin 1800). ODNB DIW FDA OCIL Works: The Shamrock, or Hibernian Cresses, edited by Samuel Whyte (Dublin 1772); Do. [another edn.] (London: printed for S. Bladon, No. 28, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXIII [1773]), viii, 272pp., 8°; Do. [pirated 2nd edn.] (London: R. Snagg No. 29, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXIV [1774]), [2], v-viii, 272pp.; and Do., reissued as A Collection of Poems, the production of the kingdom of Ireland; selected from a collection pub. in that kingdom intituled, The Shamrock; or, Hibernian Cresses (Dublin 1792-94), with add. material. ed. Poems on Various Subjects including The theatre, a didactic essay; in the course of which are pointed out, the rocks and shoals to which deluded adventurers are inevitably exposed. Ornamented with cuts, and illustrated with notes, original letters and curious incidental anecdotes (1792) [printed with 705 subscriptions]; Do., The second edition, carefully revised and conducted through the press, by Edward Athenry Whyte (Dublin: printed by Robert Marchbank, and sold by Exshaw, Archer, Jones, Moore, Rice, Grueber, Draper, Mercier, &c. and by the editor, 1794]), [2], vii, [1], vii, [2], iv-x, [1], x-lvi, [2], 257, [7], 257-343, [1]pp., ill. [pls.: port.], 8° [bearing add. t.p. engraved 'Dublin, printed for the editor, Edward Athenry Whyte, F.C.T.C.D. 1793'; incls. list of subscribers, the addenda to which are dated April 16th, 1794; text continuous despite some mispagination; and Do. [3rd edn.] [1796]) [see details]; also electronic edition [Eighteenth Century, Reel 5001, No. 3]. Miscellaneous Works: 1. ed., [James Burgh,] The Art of Speaking: Containing I. An essay; in which are given rules for expressing properly the principal passions and humours, [.] and II. Lessons taken from the antients and moderns [.] (London : printed for T. Longman, J. Buckland, and W. Fenner, in Pater-noster-Row; J. Waugh, in Lombard-street; E. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Field, in Cheapside, M.DCC.LXI. [1761]), [4],373,[19]pp.; Do. [2nd edn.] (London 1768); Do. [4th edn.] London: T. Longman & J. Buckland, etc., 1775), 373pp., 8°; Do. [5th edn.] (London 1781), 8°; [6th edn.] (Dublin 1784), 12°; Do. [7th Edn.] (London: printed for T. Longman and J. Buckland, in Pater-noster-Row; T. Field, in Leadenhall-street; and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1787, 1792), 373pp. [see details]; and Do. [another edn.; so-called 7th Edn] (London 1792) [copy held in Oxford UL]. 2. English grammar-school, Grafton Street, Dublin ([Dublin] c.1765]), 8pp.; 22.
