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1845 The O'Donoghue: A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding
The first book edition. First issued in eleven monthly parts from January through November 1845.
Bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and decorative gilt to the spine.
Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, well known by his pen name Phiz, and best known for appearing in the works of Charles Dickens and Augustus Septimus Mayhew and Harrison Ainsworth, as well as Lever's.
With a frontispiece and twenty-five plates. Collated, complete.
This was the sixth major novel of Irish novelist and raconteur, Charles Lever, written between his quitting of his editorial post at Trinity College and his joining of the British diplomatic corps. The title suggests of action taking place in Ireland 1795, the period leading up to the Rebellion of 1798.
Bearing the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Kintore to the front pastedown.
Condition
Bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and decorative gilt to the spine. Externally, smart, with fading to the spine and scuffing to the boards. Rubbing to the extremities. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Kintore to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional spots, most heavily concentrated to the plates and endpapers. Offsetting to the title page. Contemporary ink inscription to the first page of the novel's text.
Very Good
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