THE HISTORY OF IRELAND; Volume the First

London, England: J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, 1763. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. Quarto, 11.1 in. x 8.6 in., pp. xxiii, [1], 144, 165-428, 439-532. Rebound in dark morocco with decorative rule in blind over marbled boards. GIlt title on black panel and four-raised bands to spine. Publisher's brown topstain. Newer endpapers. Thirty-six page index. Errata page. Previous owner's signature to top of title page. Light age-toning to pages; occasional spotting throughout. Spine and hinges tight; square and bright textblock. Ferdinando Warner(1703-1768) is said by Cole to have been educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He became vicar of Ronde in Wiltshire in 1730, and rector of St. Michael's, Queenhithe, London, on 13 Feb. 1746-7.... He was created LL.D. in 1754, by what university has not been ascertained, and appointed rector of Barnes in Surrey in 1758. He was much esteemed as a popular preacher, and his writings show him to have been a man of wide learning and more than ordinary ability.

In connection to his HIstory of Ireland, which suggested itself to him while gathering materials for his ‘Ecclesiastical History,' he undertook a journey to Dublin in 1761, where facilities were afforded him for studying the manuscripts in the College Library, Marsh's Library, and the state documents preserved in the Birmingham Tower and elsewhere. But, failing to obtain the pecuniary assistance he had expected from the Irish House of Commons, he unfortunately desisted from the undertaking, after publishing one volume. (from Dictionary of National Biography).