Hardiman, James. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway. From the earliest Period to the present Time, embellished with several Engravings. To which is added, a copious Appendix, containing the principal Charters and other original Documents. First Edition. Dublin, Printed by W. Folds and Sons, 1820. 26 x 21 cm. xvi, 320 pages, lvi, (4). With 7 Plates and 4 fragments of Plates (see comments). New (2021) dark red half calf over marbled boards. Black spine label with gilt title. New end papers. Good condition. New Binding. Text pages and seven plates complete. Only fragements remain of the folding plates (see images). Age darkened and thumped throughout with some dog ears and annotations in ink, pencil and colour pencil. Faint damp staining and some repairs to some pages & plates. Gift inscription (‘The Right Honourable Nathanial Earl of Leitrim’s Gift to James [O’Fair?] 15th January 1826’) in ink on title page.

Incomplete and damaged plates are the Frontispiece, Map of the Town in 1651 (to face page 30), Plan of the Town and Suburbs of Galway, 1820 (to face page 279) and County Courthouse, New Bridge and Gaol (to face page 300). All other Plates are present.
Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, (1768 – 1854), styled The Honourable from 1783 to 1795, and then Viscount Clements to 1804, was an Irish nobleman and politician.
Born in Dublin, he was educated at a private school in Portarlington and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1788. Two years later he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Whig member for Roscommon Borough as well as Carrick, but chose to sit for the latter. In 1798, as Viscount Clements, he was returned for both Cavan Borough and Leitrim. He represented the latter constituency until the Act of Union in 1801, and was then elected for Leitrim at Westminster until 1804.

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• Inventory Number: 102333AB

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