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Our mess

Title
Our mess / edited by Charles Lever (Harry Lorrequer) ; with a portrait of the author and numerous illustrations on wood and steel by Phiz.
Published
Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Co. ; London : William S. Orr and Co. ; Edinburgh : Fraser and Co., [1842]-1844 (Dublin : J.S. Folds, Son and Patton)
Physical Description
35 parts in 32 (3 volumes) : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BEIN In L576 843ob: Parts bound together in three volumes, without original wrappers. Armorial bookplate: A cruce est salus, John Ashmead Pruen. Inscribed: John A. Pruen, Guildford.Garvan Collection on Ireland.
SML,Y In L576 843o: v. 1, imperfect: leaf following p. x wanting.
BEIN In L576 843oa: In parts, as issued. Original wrappers. Garvan Collection on Ireland. Half-title, gen. t.p., contents, etc. for vol. I, x p., 1 l., bound in at front of no. XII, XIII; half-title, gen. t.p., contents, etc. for vol. II, ix, [1] p., bound in at front of no. XXIV, XXV; gen. t.p., contents and individual t.p. for each work, x [i.e. vi] p., 5 l., bound in at end of no. 34, 35.
BEIN Pforzheimer Intelligence 9832: In parts, as issued. Imperfect: numbers 1-14 (Jack Hinton) wanting. Original wrappers. From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer.
Notes
Each part (no.) in the original illustrated pink paper covers, as issued Jan. 1842-Sept. 1844; pts. 12/13, 24/25 and 34/35 are double numbers. Title page (dated 1843) and other preliminaries to v. 1 in pt. 12/13; t.p. (dated 1844) to v. 2 in pt. 24/25; t.p. (dated 1844) to v. 3 in pt. 34/35. Special title pages to the 3 v. (dated 1844) in pt. 34/35. Publisher's and general advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers of pts. 1-4, 6-34/35, and on p. [4] of pt. 5. "Our mess advertiser" inserted in pts. 1 and 11. Additional publisher's and general advertisements tipped into pts. 3-4, 12/13, 20, 30 and 34/35. Publisher's notices insered in pts. 1, 27 and 32.
Parts 14-34/35 also numbered as no. 1-21/22 of "Tom Burke of Ours" on covers of pts.
Vol. 1: x, 396 p., [27] leaves of plates; v. 2: xi, 372 p., [24] leaves of plates; v. 3: x, 294 p., [20] leaves of plates.
Illustrations: 71 prints : etching ; full-page. Comprise 70 ill. drawn and etched by H.K. Browne (Phiz), and port. of the author by H.T. Ryall, after S. Lover. -- 9 prints : wood-engraving ; various sizes. After Browne; some signed by E. Evans as engraver. -- Full-page wood-engraved ill. on covers of parts, after Browne, signed: E. Evans.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
v. 1. Jack Hinton, the guardsman
v. 2-3. Tom Burke of "Ours."
Genre/Form
Fiction.
History.
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Citation

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