Black leather spine with maroon title plate, raised gilt banding and gilt lettering. Blue and red faded marbled boards. Dimensions are for one volume.

Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Co. (1841)

A VERY FINE FIRST EDITION

Edited by Harry Lorrequer with illustrations by “Phiz” In two volumes

Lever had never taken part in a battle himself, but his next three books, Charles O’Malley (1841), Jack Hinton and Tom Burke of Ours (1857), written under the spur of the writer’s chronic extravagance, contain some splendid military writing and some of the most animated battle-pieces on record. In pages of O’Malley and Tom Burke Lever anticipates not a few of the best effects of Marbot, Thibaut, Lejeune, Griois, Seruzier, Burgoyne and the like. His account of the Douro need hardly fear comparison, it has been said, with Napier’s. Condemned by the critics, Lever had completely won the general reader from the Iron Duke himself downwards.

Charles James Lever (31 August 1806 – 1 June 1872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation.