1863-1865 Barrington; Luttrell of Arran

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

This set offers two first edition titles by Charles Lever, an Irish novelist and raconteur.

Uniformly bound in half morocco, with marbled boards and endpapers. 

'Barrington' (1863) - Set in 18th-century Ireland, this novel revolves around a protracted lawsuit between the once-wealthy aristocrat Peter Barrington and the British East India Company. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page and twenty-four plates. 

'Luttrell of Arran' (1865) - Centres on a reclusive man, who arrives on a remote Irish island with his sickly wife and young son, stirring curiosity among the local population. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page and thirty plates. 

Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, well known by his pen name 'Phiz' and for appearing in books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, Augustus Septimus Mayhew and Harrison Ainsworth. 

Collated, complete.