Lot 70
  • 70

Le Fanu, Joseph [Thomas] Sheridan

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Le Fanu, Joseph [Thomas] Sheridan
  • The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien. A Tale of the Wars of King James. Dublin: James McGlashan, (London:) W.S. Orr and (Edinburgh:) Fraser & Co., April 1846--January 1847
  • ink on paper
FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 10/11 PARTS, 22 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), original pictorial pink wrappers, uncut, preserved in matching cloth chemise and slipcase, rebacked with some wear to the spines, most upper wrappers faded, wrapper for part 8 supplied from part 6 of another copy, some slight foxing to plates

Provenance

Estelle Doheny, morocco book-label on chemise, the sale of her collection at Christie's New York, Part IV, 17/18 October 1988, lot 1448

Literature

Sadleir 1375; Wolff 4012

Catalogue Note

The scarce parts-issue of the only Le Fanu novel to be issued in this form.