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Title

Roland Cashel / by Charles Lever ; with illustrations by Phiz.

Author

Lever, Charles, 1806-1872.

Publication

London : Chapman and Hall, 1850

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Details

Additional Authors

• Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.
• Green, W. T., active 1837-1872.
• Riviere & Son. bnd

Description

viii, 627 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Genre/Form

• Drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Graphite drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Wash drawings – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Pencil works – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• Added engraved t.-p.
• Dedication dated "October 1849."
• Originally issued monthly in 20 pts. in 19, dated on covers May [1848]-Nov. 1849 (the last a double no.). Title page (dated 1850) and other preliminaries in pt. 19/20. Pt. 19/20 has date "1849" on p. [1] of covers; inclusive years of publication deduced from advertisements.
• Illustrations: 40 prints (incl. added t.p.) : etching ; full-page. Drawn and etched by H.K. Browne (Phiz). -- Parts issue has additional full-page wood engraving on covers, by W.T. Green after Browne.
• Parts issue: Each pt. (no.) in illustrated shell pink paper covers. Publisher's and general advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers. Additional publisher's and general advertisements inserted in pts. 1-2, 6, 8-13 and 18-19/20.

Indexed In (note)

• Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction

Call Number

Arents BIP (Lever, C. Roland 1850) 04-265

OCLC

• 3425554
• NYPG04-B4505

Author

Lever, Charles, 1806-1872.

Title

Roland Cashel / by Charles Lever ; with illustrations by Phiz.

Imprint

London : Chapman and Hall, 1850 ([London] : Charles Whiting)

Indexed In:

Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction, 1417

Local Note

Arents copy of parts issue (Arents BIP (Lever, C. Roland 1850) 04-265): Housed in green cloth wrappers and clamshell case of quarter dark green leather and green cloth, gilt.

Arents copy of bound issue (Arents BIP (Lever, C. Roland 1850a) 04-266): Rebound in deep brown crushed levant morocco, gilt, by Riviere & Son. Publisher's dark plum cloth covers, blind-stamped on front and back and gilt on spine, bound in.

Arents copy of parts issue accompanied by: 3 drawings : pencil (2), pencil and wash (1) ; 19 x 12 cm. or smaller, mounted in sheets 15 x 22 cm. Sketches by Browne for the frontispiece and ill. facing p. 120 and 203, initialed "HKB." Caption inscribed on 3rd drawing: "The picture gallery"; legend: "No. 86. St. John clothed with a raiment of camel's hair." Two on blue paper. In separate green cloth wrappers.

Arents copy of bound issue extra illustrated with 2 pencil drawings by Browne, mounted in sheets bound in opposite the relevant ill. (facing p. 70 and 277). Initialed "HKB"; 1st drawing also signed "Phiz." First drawing has ink annotation by Browne: "This is a night scene--dark as pitch ... I'll touch the effect into proof." Second drawing, on blue paper, has legend "The discovery"; additional sketch of a woman's head on verso.

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Added Author

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. Illustrator

Green, W. T., active 1837-1872. Wood engraver

Riviere & Son. Binder

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Lever, C. Roland 1850) 04-265

Arents BIP (Lever. C. Roland 1850a) 04-266