Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon
first edition hardcover
1841 · Dublin
by (LEVER, Charles James)
Dublin: Curry, 1841. First. hardcover. very good. Edited by Harry Lorrequer. Frontispieces, title page vignette, approximately 40 illustrations throughout by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Margins of plates discolored. 2 volumes, tall 8vo, original blind-stamped red cloth; (volume I recased, heavy foxing on first few pages of each volume). Dublin: Wm. Curry, Jun & Co., 1841. First Edition in book form. Very good. The most important of Lever's novels. It displays "his best qualities at their best." Halkett & Laing I 321. Houfe 248. (Inventory #: 114237)