Life of John Mitchell. In Two Volumes. London: Kegan, 1888. First Edition. Pp (1) xx, 343; (2) vii, 312, [32]. Original blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spines. A nice bright set.

Frontispiece portrait of John Mitchell to volume one.

An important work on the Irish nationalist revolutionary, journalist, and political writer John Mitchel (1815-1875). It remains an essential primary source for understanding Mitchel’s life, the Young Ireland movement, and 19th-century Irish nationalism.