Charles Lever was a contemporary of Charles Dickens who was curried by his publishers to be an Irish response to the hugely successful works of Dickens. This book was written in response to the Cholera epidemic in Country Clare. Lever, while not as successful as Dickens, went on to write many more novels, often in a comic vein. PHIZ, or H.K. Browne, was a popular Victorian illustrator who first worked with Dickens illustrating “Pickwick”. He worked with many popular writers including Lever, Dickens and Ainsworth. Binding signed “Bound by Zaehnsdorf London, England.

Very Good Condition: 8vo. Leather binding with gilt decorations on spine and gilt lines around the edges. Marble endpapers with gilt decorations around the edges of the boards. original green cloth binding bound into back of book. Illustrations: 3 full page intact along with in-text and vignettes at head of chapters. Signed Binding. “St. Patrick’s Eve” by Charles Lever. Fully Illustrated by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand. 1845. COLI1845BEFA