Works [39 Volume set] ... (Collection of British Authors Series)
Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872. First Edition. Leather Binding. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall (small). Very Good / No Jacket. Item #L054602
[ca. 350] pages per volume. Title on spines: Lever's Works. Incomplete set of the works in their continental incarnations; contents as follows: 1) Arthur O'Leary : His Wanderings and Ponderings in Many Lands (2 volumes; Collection of British Authors Series; 136-37; 1847); 2) Barrington (2 volumes; CBAS; 652-53; 1863); 3) The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly (2 volumes; CBAS; 987-88; 1868); 4) The Confessions of Con Cregan : The Irish Gil Blas (2 volumes; CBAS; 513-14; 1860); 5) Davenport Dunn : Or, The Man of the Day (3 volumes; CBAS; 472-74; 1859); 6) A Day's Ride : A Life's Romance (2 volumes; CBAS; 694-95; 1864); 7) The Fortunes of Glencore (2 volumes; CBAS; 393-94; 1857); 8) The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1 volume only (volume 2); CBAS; 139; 1847); 9) Jack Hinton, The Guardsman (1 volume only (volume 2); CBAS; 166; 1849); 10) The Knight of Gwynne : A Tale of the Time of the Union (3 volumes; CBAS; 125-27; 1847); 11) Lord Kilgobbin : A Tale of Ireland in Our Own Time (2 volumes; CBAS; 1210-11; 1872); 12) Luttrell of Arran (1 volume only (volume 1); CBAS; 761; 1865); 13) The Martins of Cro' Martin (3 volumes; CBAS; 361-63; 1856); 14) Maurice Tiernay, the Soldier of Fortune (2 volumes; CBAS; 554-55; 1861); 15) The O'Donoghue : A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago (1 volume; CBAS; 89; 1845); 16) One of Them (1 volume only (volume 2); CBAS; 534; 1860); 17) A Rent in a Cloud (1 volume; CBAS; 1006; 1869); 18) St. Patrick's Eve [and] Paul Gosslett's Confessions (1 volume; CBAS; 1113; 1870); 19) Sir Brook Fossbrooke (2 volumes; CBAS; 886-87; 1867); 20) Sir Jasper Carew, His Life and Experiences (2 volumes; CBAS; 572-73; 1861); 21) That Boy of Norcott's (1 volume; CBAS; 1024; 1869); 22) Tony Butler (2 volumes; CBAS; 866-67; 1866). 39 volumes altogether, bound uniformly in 3/4 dark blue morocco over tan marbled boards, gilt-stamped and decorated spines with raised bands, matching marbled endpapers, t.e.g., lower edges and few foredges untrimmed. Slight wear to extremities (chiefly to spine edges and corners); slight rubbing to covers; slight internal warping to few preliminary leaves of some volumes; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries); else a very serviceable small-format fine-bound set.
Price: $650.00