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IV.
If we are to have a comprehensive picture of printing in Ireland in the seventeenth century, it should also take into consideration another element which became even more pronounced in the eighteenth century: the books which were printed in Ireland but published in England. Of these several are well known, among them the two works by Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, reissued in London by Henry Herringman: his Parthenissa, printed in Waterford, and his Poems on Most of the Festivals of the Church, printed in Cork. Both were recognized for what they are by Henry Bradshaw's keen eye. Peter Walsh's History & Vindication of the Loyal Formulary, or Irish Remonstrance of 1674 is of interest not only, as Walsh recounts in his introduction, because the sheets for a large part of the book had been printed by 1669 in Dublin (a statement supported by typographic evidence), but also because, with Fr. Harold's writings, it does prove that Walsh and his Catholic friends had access to the King's Printing-House in Dublin.
That by the third quarter of the seventeenth century it was considered practical to ship sheets of Irish-printed books to England for sale there sets the back-ground for less ethical developments in the following century.
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