Valentine M'Clutchy [McClutchy], The Irish Agent; or, The Chronicles of Castle Cumber
by Carleton, William
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- Three quarter green calf, tooled patterns in backstrip compartments, red morocco label. Old repair to outer corner of title page
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About This Item
Dublin: James Duffy, 1848. Illustrated edition (first published in three volumes in 1844, dated 1845; with illustrations by Phiz in 1847). 20 engraved illustrations by Phiz. 468pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter green calf, tooled patterns in backstrip compartments, red morocco label. Old repair to outer corner of title page. Lower board detached. Good. foxing to paltes. Illustrated edition (first published in three volumes in 1844, dated 1845; with illustrations by Phiz in 1847). 20 engraved illustrations by Phiz. 468pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Illustrated by Phiz. Valentine M'Clutchy is "a massive, rambling phantasmagoria of a novel ... throughly Dickensian in many ways" - Robert Lee Wolff. Sadleir 521a (for first illustrated edition, 1847)
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- 56610
- Title
- Valentine M'Clutchy [McClutchy], The Irish Agent; or, The Chronicles of Castle Cumber
- Author
- Carleton, William
- Format/Binding
- 20 engraved illustrations by Phiz. 468pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Three quarter green calf, tooled patterns in backstrip compartments, red morocco label. Old repair to outer corner of title page
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrated edition (first published in three volumes in 1844, d
- Publisher
- James Duffy
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- Irish | British
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