The Dublin Magazine and Irish Monthly Register for 1798 & 1799. Being a Repository of useful & Entertaining Knowledge, including a Review of new Publications & an Accurate register of the Transformations Literary, Political & Military of the Times. Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, 45 College Green. Original quarter calf over marbled boards. Covers lightly scuffed, contents pages in nice bright condition throughout.

Volumes one: July – December, 1798; Volume two: January – June 1799. Each month illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, map or humours plate.

The first year of this monthly periodical, with a Preface by the editor in the first issue, outlining the objectives of the magazine: “The readers of this kind of periodical publications are, men of science, men of business in trade & commerce, men who read chiefly for amusement, and the female reader; each of whom it is hoped will herein find what is agreeable.”

Containing detail reports on the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (24th May – 12th October).