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Kevin Barry's schoolbook on Shakespeare, signed and inscribed.
Estimate:
€1,000 - €1,500
Sold
€3,200
Timed Auction
The Eclectic Collector - Part One
Description
Description: The Life of Henry The Fifth edited by G.C. Moore Smith. Signed in Irish " Caomgain de Barra" and in English "K. G. Barry, I Senior, Belvedere College, Dublin" and "C. de Barra" and "K.G. Barry" twice more, all on flyleaf, also inscribed in another hand "Barry is a bloody awful [excised]". Signed again "K.G. Barry" on endpaper thrice, along with a mathematical question and some drawings of heads, one possibly one of his Jesuit teachers.
Condition
Cover stained, shaken, fair, but interior good, signatures and inscriptions are clear and legible.
Provenance
Family of Kevin Barry;Thence by descent