Lever Charles Editor (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Volume I (only, of 2). Ivory cloth, lettered/decorated in gilt, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. No. 44 of an edition limited to 250 copies, hand-numbered on copyright page colophon. Cover cloth typically foxed/tanned, with only slight wear. Firm binding, clean interior. xiii,299 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Phiz (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. William Curry Jun & Co, Dublin, 1844. Hard cover, brown boards, gilt titles. Book condition : Good, clean text. Superb engravings by Phiz. Binding exposed at front but firm. Fore pages browned, spotted. Page edges marbled, browned. Covers worn, Spine worn. Some pages spotted. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #021770. Phiz (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 1841. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. 348pp. Vol 1 only. Rebacked, with new endpapers. Some foxing throughout. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 1841. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover. 348pp. Vol 1 only. Rebacked, with new endpapers. Some foxing throughout. . . . .

2 volumes. 8vo. Prelims. + 372pp. + x + 294pp. 2 frontispieces and steel engraved plates by Phiz (H.K. Browne). Some slight offsetting of plates onto text, frontispiece of volume I unprofessionally restubbed with tape, marbled e.ps. and edges, rebound in rubbed half calf with marbled boards, gilt decorated spines with 2 leather title lables, heads of spines chipped and torn, with loss of approximately 3.5cm. to head of spine of volume I. US$44.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback in dark blue leather boards, gold gilt lettering and design to spine. No dustjacket as issued. 372pp. Marbled endpapers. Numerous illustrations on steel by Phiz. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Rubbing to board edges, head and tail of spine, spine edges, bad foxing to plates, corner of one plate missing. (9/3).…

Half Leather. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Brown calf spine (with red labels) & corners with brown cloth boards. 2 of 3 Vols. - Vol 1 Jack Hinton, The Gaurdsman, Vol 2 Tom Burke of Ours with numerous illustrations by Phiz. Shelf wear to binding, plates are foxed/discoloured. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 2 volumes of the 3-volume set. Heavy foxing throughout. Illustrator: Phiz. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Ireland; 19th century; Inventory No: 41447. For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. Phiz (illustrator). …

Dublin: William Curry, Jr.; Edinburgh: Fraser and Crawford; London: W.S. Orr, 1841. In two volumes. First edition (NCBEL v.3, 934; Sadleir, v.1 p.205 - lacks the dedication leaf, but retains leaves Y8-Z6 in volume one, which are lacking in later editions). Bound in tooled brown half morocco, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled paper boards, all edges sprinkled; etched frontis and second, vignette title page in each volume, xii, 348; x (paged viii), 336. Lever used a pseudonym for this one. With 20 inserted plates by "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne) in each volume. Most plates lightly foxed; trivial rubbing, a Fine, pretty copy.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes complete, 4to. Beautiful First Book Edition of Lever's second novel, and perhaps his most popular and endearing. Originally published in serial format in monthly numbers from March 1840 through December 1941. Beautifully bound in later full dark brown morocco with 5 raised spine bands with titles stamped in gilt in two compartments and finial designs stamped in gilt in other compartments as well as on the four corners of both boards. Multi-layered gilt turn-ins. bordering leather insets. Marbled end-papers. Silk bookmarks. A simply gorgeous production. The binding is signed by Little, Brown & Co., who went on to publish the American edition and likely took the sheets from the Irish Edition, which was the first, and had them bound for a specific customer. Bound in volume 1 is the cover from Part 1 of the original serialization. Tissue guarded frontis illustrations in both volumes plus illustrated title pages present as called for. Illustrated throughout by Phiz, (Hablot Knight Browne). Both volumes are square, tight and clean throughout with little wear save a touch of rubbing to hinges, tips and the rear board of volume 1. A quite handsome and very collectable set in a stunning binding. Please note: International and Priority orders may require additional postage. Phiz (illustrator).…