Charles Lever; or, the Man of the Nineteenth Century

Book Description

London: James Burns, 1841. xii, 248, 16pp., 12mo. Woodcut frontispiece and plates, with the half-title and a sixteen-page publisher’s catalogue at end. Occasional very minor foxing but a nice copy in the original blue fine diaper-grained cloth, spine gilt-lettered. First edition, a novel about the dangers of socialism published in Burns’s series “The Englishman’s Library.” Wolff 2761; Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction 3744, no. 15: “the title is a curious coincidence, the book appearing after Lever had begun to publish, but before his name as an author was avowed.”

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