Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady

4 volumes, 12mo (202 x 128mm.), FIRST EDITION, half-titles, advertisement leaf at the end of volume 4, UNCUT IN THE ORIGINAL DRAB BOARDS, printed labels on spines, collector's black cloth chemises within two quarter black morocco slipcases, very slight foxing to endpapers and boards, some joints very slightly tender, minor stains to boards and some very slight repairs to spine ends

Augustine Healy, bookplates

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A REMARKABLY FINE COPY. The Dublin-based writer and socialite Sydney Morgan [née Owenson] (later Lady Morgan, c.1783--1859) was a very popular novelist of her time, often with central themes relating to the injustice of British laws penalizing Catholics, and the conflict between the "vapid, insolent English pitted against noble, dispossessed Irish" (Dennis R. Dean, Oxford DNB). The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys is her last Hibernian novel, influenced by the work of Sir Walter Scott and Ann Radcliffe. The Dublin edition of the novel appears to have been first published in the following year (1838), under the imprint of John Cumming.