Le Fanu, Joseph [Thomas] Sheridan

8vo (190 x 120mm.), 3 volumes, first edition in book form, half-titles, original scarlet cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Sharp & Hale bookseller's tickets on front pastedowns, modern morocco-backed folding box, slight stain on vol. 3 pp,39-42, a few manuscript markings in margins, ownership inscriptions on front pastedowns erased, bindings slightly rubbed and slightly soiled, slight dampstain on lower cover vol. 1

Sadleir 1385

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The Tenants of Malory was originally serialised, as were many of Le Fanu's novels, in the Dublin University Magazine.