covers worn, scuffed, town library inscription and label ghost to front endpapers othrwise unmarked, front hinge cracked. A scarce work of speculative ficiton concerning life in a future Republic of Britain and an attempt to return the royal family, living in exile in Boston, to the throne. John Boyle O'Reilly was an important figure in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Fenians. He served two years in English prisons and in 1868 was transported to Australia for his republican activities. Hav
...ing escaped from that country after a little more than a year he took up residence in the United States. O'Reilly, who became an American citizen, and the other authors were all literary notables of the Boston area.
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