Works of Charles Lever. Comprising: Confessions of Harry Lorrequer; Charles O'Malley; Jack Hinton; Arthur O'Leary; Tom Burke; Tales of the Trains; Nuts and Nutcrackers; St. Patrick's Eve; The O'Donoghue; The Knight of Gwynne; Confessions of Con. Cregan; Roland Cashel; Sir Jasper Carew; Martins of Cro'Martin; One of Them; A Day's Ride; Davenport Dunn; Cornelius O'Dowd; Luttrell of Arran; Tony Butler; A rent in a Cloud; Sir Brook Fossbrooke; The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly. Together with Fitzpatrick's 'The Life of Charles Lever'.

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39 volumes, 6 - 9 inches tall. Remarkable and very attractive turquoise half morocco bindings by Riviere with very ornate gilt tooling to the panels and gilt top edges. Many are finely illustrated by Hablot K. Browne 'Phiz'. There are some bumped corners, a little rubbing and the odd mark but no splitting or loss. With the bookplate of C. H. Waterland Mander. All the titles are first editions excepting 'A Day's Ride' "Second edition" but first published separately, and all are complete excepting 'Tony Butler' which lacks the third volume. A splendid collection of this great Irish novelist who in his day rivaled Dickens in popularity. Some titles are particularly rare, including 'A Rent in a Cloud', which is "not in Sadleir: "It has been impossible to locate a copy …". N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1689857031081

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