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Tales and sketches, illustrating the character, usages, traditions, sports and pastimes of the Irish peasantry

Title: Tales and sketches, illustrating the character, usages, traditions, sports and pastimes of the Irish peasantry / by William Carleton.
Author: Carleton, William, 1794-1869.
Publication: Dublin : Published by James Duffy, 1845

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Description

ix, [2], 393, [3] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Tales and stories of the Irish peasantry

Subjects

Peasants > Ireland > Fiction
Graphite drawings > Great Britain > 19th century
Ireland > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction
Drawings > Great Britain > 19th century
Folklore > Ireland

Genre/Form

Drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
Graphite drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

Added engraved t.p., dated 1846.
Illustrations: 8 prints (incl. added t.p.) : etching ; full-page. Drawn and etched by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Publisher's advertisement: p. [395-396].

Indexed In (note)

Sadleir, M. 19th century fiction
Hayley, B. Carleton

Call Number

ZBIG (Carleton, W. Tales and sketches)

LCCN

02007305

OCLC

4408965
NYPGR4408965-B

Author

Carleton, William, 1794-1869.

Title

Tales and sketches, illustrating the character, usages, traditions, sports and pastimes of the Irish peasantry / by William Carleton.

Imprint

Dublin : Published by James Duffy, 1845 (Dublin : William Holden)

Indexed In:

Sadleir, M. 19th century fiction, I, no. 515a

Hayley, B. Carleton, 18a

Local Note

Arents copy bound in dark red morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son. Original gilt-stamped dark red cloth from publisher's binding preserved, mounted on 3 inserted blank leaves at end.

Arents copy: Four original pencil drawings by Phiz mounted and bound in opposite the relevant ill. (frontispiece, added t.p., "A legend of Knockmany" and "Barney Brady's goose"); author's A.L.S. to "My dear Wilde, February 2nd 1862" (1 folded sheet ([2] p.)), mounted on binder's blank at front.

Arents copy lacks one print ("The senachie," facing p. 177).

Copy in ZBIG imperfect: Pages i-ix (half title, t.p., dedication, preface) and p. 85-88 wanting.

Added Author

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.

Riviere & Son. Binder

Research Call Number

ZBIG (Carleton, W. Tales and sketches)

Arents BIP (Carleton, W. Tales 1846) 99-74

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