The Works of Charles Lever

First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated by Phiz and Hablot K. Brown. 38 volumes. Various sizes ranging from small to tall, thick 8vo, all uniformly bound in olive morocco, gilt-stamped raised bands (shamrocks on spines), inner dentelles, t.e.g.; (spines faded to brown). London: Wm. S. Orr, Chapman and Hall, Blackwood, Hodgson, et al., 1844 to 1906. All First Editions. Very Good. Lever's novels vary from the earlier Irish and military extravaganzas to the 1860's studies of common Irish life and manners. A contemporary of Dickens, Lever was considered a brilliant and amusing novelist, with a humor which poked fun at his own people. Many of his works were (truncated) first published in series and then assembled into books. Some volumes have the original pictorial wrappers bound in.Titles Included:The Fortunes of Glencore -- in Three Volumes, That Boy of Norcotts, Sir Brook Fossbrook -- in Three Volumes, Arthur O%u2019Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands -- in Three Volumes, Paul Gosslett%u2019s Confessions in Love, Law, and the Civil Service, The Martins of Cro%u2019Martin, The O%u2019Donoghue; Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago, Luttrell of Arran, Roland Cashel, The Life of Charles Lever -- in Two Volumes, Confessions of Con. Cregan: The Irish Gil Blas. -- in Two Volumes, Tony Butler -- in Three Volumes, The Knight of Gwynne, Charles Lever: His Life in His Letters -- in Two Volumes, Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Esq. -- in Two Volumes, Sir Jasper Carew, His Life and Experiences, One of Them, Davenport Dunn: A Man of Our Day, The Dodd Family Abroad, Barrington, Nuts and Nutcrackers, Tales of the Trains: Being Some Chapters of Railroad Romance, A Day%u2019s Ride: A Life%u2019s Romance -- in Two Volumes, Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune, A Rent in a Cloud, St. Patrick%u2019s Eve (Inventory #: 135467)