The Whole Works of Sir James Ware Concerning Ireland. Revised and Improved. In Three Volumes (Vol.I. only) Containing The History of The Bishops of That Kingdom, and such Matters Ecclesiastical and Civil, in Which they were concerned, From the First Propagation of Christianity Therein to the present Time. As also, a Table of The Names, and most remrkable Matters contained in this Volume. The Whole Adorned with a Variety of Copper Plates

The Whole Works of Sir James Ware Concerning Ireland. Revised and Improved. In Three Volumes (Vol.I. only) Containing The History of The Bishops of That Kingdom, and such Matters Ecclesiastical and Civil, in Which they were concerned, From the First Propagation of Christianity Therein to the present Time. As also, a Table of The Names, and most remrkable Matters contained in this Volume. The Whole Adorned with a Variety of Copper Plates

Author: Ware, Sir James (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666)

Folio.(7.75" x 12.25") 1739. Ware, Sir James. Dublin. E. Jones. Full mottled brown leather. Spine with six gilt rule bordered raised bands. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with loss to tips. Upper board held by spine cords with chiping to upper board near head of spine. Head and foot of spine chipped with loss. Covers scuffed and rubbed. Thick boards with fancy gilt rule to board edges. All edges reddened. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Erskine to front pastedown. First free endpaper with 1.25" x .5" chip to lower corner, closed tear at head. Illustrated with copper plates to the chapter headings, head and tail pieces. There are no large engraved plates in this edition.

From Wiki: Sir James Ware (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666) was an Anglo-Irish historian. In 1633 he published one of his most famous works: The Historie of Ireland, collected by three learned authors. This included Edmund Campion's 'Historie of Ireland', Meredith Hanmer's 'Chronicle of Ireland' and, notably, the controversial tract by Edmund Spenser, 'A View of the State of Ireland'. Contrary to what the title claimed, Ware also included the short work of the fifteenth-century chronicler, Henry Marlborough, whose 'Chronicle of Ireland' began at 1285 and thus suitably complemented Hanmer's work which ended in 1284. The work has received widespread attention from Irish historians for Ware's subtle editing of Spenser's political writings as well as its dedication to Lord Deputy Wentworth. His attempts to tone the text down was, as he admitted, an attempt to reflect the more peaceful times of the 1630s. At the same time it is hard to see the inclusion of the 'View' as nothing more than a reflection of political and colonial ambitions of the new government under Wentworth. Ware's fourth work was arguably his best to date. De Scriptoribus Hiberniae, published in Dublin in 1639, was an exhaustive account of the writers of Ireland from the fourth to the seventeenth century. It was divided into two books: the first considered Irish authors while the second provided information on 'foreign' writers commenting on Ireland. Rich in source material, one of the most striking features was Ware's ability to interconnect medieval Irish manuscripts with European printed works. The turmoil of the civil war in the 1640s, and his senior role under the government of James Butler meant it was to be his last published work for fifteen years. Ware's first new book since the 1630s was De Hibernia et Antiquitatibus eius Disquisitones, published in London in 1654, and in a second edition in 1658. This was followed in 1656 by Opuscula Sancto Patricio Adscripta. The year 1664 saw the publication of Venerabilis Bedae Epistolae Duae and Rerum Hibernicarum Annales ab Anno Domini 1485 ad Annum 1558. In the following year, which saw the publication of De Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentarius, he began a brief though fruitful collaboration with Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. It was later stated that "He always kept in his House an Irish Amanuensis to interpret and translate the Language for him, and at the Time of his Death one Dubley Firbisse served him in that Office."

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