I have here for sale a TWO VOLUME SET of books entitled CHARLES O'MALLEY, The Irish Dragoon edited by HARRY LORREQUER (CHARLES JAMES LEVER) with illustrations by PHIZ. VOLS I & II, published by William Curry, Jun and Company, Dublin; Fraser and Crawford, Edinburgh; W S Orr and Company, London, in 1841.  First edition.  Here we have a novel by Irish novelist and raconteur Charles James Lever (1806-1872) written under the pseudonym Harry Lorrequer.  Each volume has an illustrated frontispiece and an illustrated title page, as well as 20 full-page b/w plates by the celebrated illustrator Phiz (Hablot Knight Brown).

Half bound green calf leather on marbled hardboards with wear to the leather and rubbing to the corners.  Five raised bands with a burgundy title block, gilt lettering and gilt decoration on the spines.  Wear to the leather along the hinges with tears at the top of the spine of Volume I.  Marbled endpapers and gilt page top edge.  Bookplate on the front endpaper.  Foxing to pages and plates.  All pages are firm and the books are in very good condition.  Vol I: ix, 348 pages.  Vol II: vii, 336 pages.  22.5 x 14.5 cm. 

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