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Характеристики

Binding Cloth
Subject Literature & Fiction
Topic Classics
Origin American
Year Printed 1894
Original/Facsimile Original
Language English

The Novels of Charles Lever

With an Introduction by Andrew Lang. 

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1895

Complete list of volumes below.

“This edition de luxe of Charles Lever’s Novels on Dickinson Hand Made Paper with Duplicate Plates is Limited to One Hundred and Fifty Sets for America.  Number 64.”

39 of 40 volumes; lacks vol. ii. of The Knight of Gwynne.

Very good teal blue cloth hardcovers, each volume 6 x 9 inches, top edge trimmed and most volumes unopened, other edges deckled.     All hinges and joints tight and very good.  Title pages illuminated in gold script.  500-600 pp. per volume.  Finely illustrated.  Once part of a college library but without standard markings, kept in the Rare Book room.  Some volumes have white ink call numbers against a black ink background on the spine - these are noted below by “spine marked.”  The volumes with out the spine marks have some penciled numbers and such within, but no card pockets or bookplate or stamps.

A very heavy lot of books.  There will be at least three boxes shipped.  The higher start price reflects this.

Charles James Lever (1806-1872), Irish novelist.

“Lever was born in Amiens Street, Dublin, the second son of James Lever, an architect and builder, and was educated in private schools. His escapades at Trinity College, Dublin (1823–1828), where he took the degree in medicine in 1831, are drawn on for the plots of some of his novels. The character Frank Webber in the novel Charles O'Malley was based on a college friend, Robert Boyle, who later became a clergyman. Lever and Boyle earned pocket-money singing ballads of their own composing in the streets of Dublin and played many other pranks which Lever embellished in the novels O'Malley, Con Cregan and Lord Kilgobbin. Before seriously embarking upon his medical studies, Lever visited Canada as an unqualified surgeon on an emigrant ship, and has drawn upon some of his experiences in Con Cregan, Arthur O'Leary and Roland Cashel. Arriving in Canada, he journeyed into the backwoods, where he was affiliated to a tribe of Native Americans but had to flee because his life was in danger, as later his character Bagenal Daly did in his novel The Knight of Gwynne.

“Trollope praised Lever's novels highly when he said that they were just like his conversation. He was a born raconteur, and had in perfection that easy flow of light description which without tedium or hurry leads up to the point of the good stories of which in earlier days his supply seemed inexhaustible. With little respect for unity of action or conventional novel structure, his brightest books, such as Lorrequer, O’Malley and Tom Burke, are in fact little more than recitals of scenes in the life of a particular ‘hero’, unconnected by any continuous intrigue. The type of character he depicted is for the most part elementary. His women are mostly roués, romps or Xanthippes; his heroes have too much of the Pickle temper about them and fall an easy prey to the serious attacks of Poe or to the more playful gibes of Thackeray in Phil Fogarty or Bret Harte in Terence Deuville. This last is a perfect bit of burlesque. Terence exchanges nineteen shots with the Hon. Captain Henry Somerset in the glen. ‘At each fire I shot away a button from his uniform. As, my last bullet shot off the last button from his sleeve, I remarked quietly, 'You seem now, my lord, to be almost as ragged as the gentry you sneered at,' and rode haughtily away.’ And yet these careless sketches contain such haunting creations as Frank Webber, Major Monsoon and Micky Free, "the Sam Weller of Ireland”. - wikipedia.

You will receive:

Lord Kilgobbin.  With Illustrations by E. J. Wheeler.  1895

Tony Butler.  With Illustrations by E. J. Wheeler.  1895

Sir Jasper Carew, His Life and Experiences.  Illustrated by E. Van Muyden.  1894

Arthur O’Leary: His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands.  With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.  1894

Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier of Fortune.  Illustrated by E. Van Muyden.

The Fortunes of Glencore.  Illustrated by E. J. Wheeler.  1894.  Thin white ink drip top edge of front board.

Barrington.  To which is added, Tales of the Trains.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1895

Luttrell of Arran.  To which is added, Paul Gosslett’s Confessions.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1895.

The O’Donoghue.  A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago.  To which is added, A Rent in a Cloud.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1894.

The Martins of Cro’ Martin.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1895

Confessions of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas.  Illustrated by “Phiz.”  In two volumes.  1894.

Davenport Dunn.  A Man of Our Day.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1895.

Jack Hinton, The Guardsman.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1894

Tom Burke of “Ours.”  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1894.

The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1895.

Harry Lorrequer.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1894.

The Dodd Family Abroad.  To which is added, That Boy of Norcott’s.  With Illustrations by Phiz and W. Cubitt Cooke.  In two volumes.  1895.

Sir Brook Fossbrooke.  To which is added, St. Patrick’s Eve.  With illustrations by E. J. Wheeler and “Phiz.”  In two volumes.  1895.  Vol. ii. spine is marked.

Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  Spines marked.  1894.

One of Them.  To which is added, A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance.  With Illustrations by Phiz and W. Cubitt Cooke.  In two volumes.  1895.  Vol. ii. spine is marked.

Roland Cashel.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes.  1894.  Both spines marked.

The Bramleighs of Bishop’s Folly.  To which is added, Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Esq., Late Secretary of Legation at _________.  In two volumes.  1894.  Both spines marked.

The Knight of Gwynne; A Tale of the Time of the Union.  With Illustrations by Phiz.  In two volumes [VOLUME ONE ONLY].  1894.  I’ve looked rather extensively for the second volume and I do not think that it came with the set.  If it happens to turn up in the future I will mail it to you.

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