FIRST EDITION. The Irish born Grattan spent much of his life on the Continent and in America, where for some years he was British Consul in Boston. His writings include fiction (see Sadleir and Wolff), literary causeries and travel narratives. Beaten Paths was his last work, a collection of reminiscences of his life in Ireland and abroad. In 1828 he met Wordsworth and Coleridge in Brussels, and gives a vivid impression of the two ageing romantics. Wordsworth still spoke in a 'thick' northern accent, and Coleridge simply never stopped talking. With an unidentified armorial bookplate (crest, a bird perching on a turret with crossed axes; motto, semper fidelis.