[Rarebooks] FS - Lever's novels in handsome binding

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*LEVER, Charles and W. J. Fitzpatrick. /THE NOVELS OF CHARLES LEVER 
/edited by his daughter [together with] /THE LIFE OF CHARLES LEVER, /by 
W. J. FitzPatrick*. Thirty-nine volumes, in all, uniformly bound in 3/4 
calf over green cloth, with all edges marbled, and the spines in 
compartments interspersed with stamped gilt shamrocks. Published by 
Downey and Co., Limited, London. 1897. 8vo. This is the "Copyright 
Edition", limited to 1,000 sets, the "Novels" being printed by T. and A. 
Constable, in Edinburgh.

Charles James Lever (1806-1872) was an Irish-born novelist and 
physician. According to Kunitz and Haycraft, "British Authors of the 
Nineteenth Century", as a lad, growing up in Dublin, Lever early 
displayed the high spirits and taste for mischief and practical jokes 
which remained with him throughout his life. He studied medicine at 
Trinity College and enlivened his studies by omnivorous reading and wild 
pranks of a relatively harmless nature. His first literary efforts were 
ballads and, on one occasion, disguised as a wandering minstrel, singing 
timely snatches of his own composition, he collected thirty shillings 
before his political sentiments provoked a street fight. His first 
public literary success was in 1840, when he published "Charles 
O'Malley". Thereafter he was prolific (between 1842 and 1845 he wrote 
five novels and many short papers), until the appearance of his last 
novel, "Lord Kilgobbin", in 1872. His works were immensely popular in 
their time. The first collected edition of his works was issued in 
1876-1878 in 26 volumes. This set was published in a limited edition of 
1,000, from 1897 to 1899 and is complete in 37 volumes. Included is a 
first printing of W. J. Fitzpatrick's two-volume life of the author, 
first published by Chapman and Hall in 1879, and bound uniformly with 
the other volumes of Lever's Works. The spines of each volume are 
sunned, and there is occasional rubbing to the board edges, mainly at 
the bottom. A few spine ends are pulled slightly, and there is a trace 
of soiling to some volumes. The cloth on one or two volumes is slightly 
rippled. In all, it is a handsome set, in about very good condition.

Price: $1,000.00.

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