Our Mess. (Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. and Tom Burke of Ours.) Edited by Harry Lorrequer. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co., [1842]-44. 35 parts in 32. 8vo (225 x 135 mm). Frontispiece portrait, 70 plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Advertisements on wrappers, dated Our Mess Advertiser at front of parts 1, 4 (numbered III), 11, publisher's slip at front of parts 1, 27, 32, 8 pp publisher's catalog at front of part 1, 2 pp ads at front of parts 3, 5, 6, 4 pp ads at front of part 4, 7 pp publisher's ads at front of part 12/13, 2 pp ads inserted with prelims at back of part 12/13, slip at front of part 14, 8 pp ads at back of part 30. Original rose-colored pictorial wrappers. Custom chemises and slipcases (2 vols). Faint offsetting to a few plates, sunning and soiling to wrappers, several parts rebacked and repaired. Provenance: A.M. Cohn (Cruikshank bookplates to cases); Estelle Doheny (oval morocco bookplates to cases). COHN-DOHENY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, in original monthly parts. Our Mess is comprised of two novels: Jack Hinton, the Guardsman which ran as parts 1-13; and Tom Burke of Ours, which was published as parts 14-35. Sadleir 1415 (3 vol ed).
Our Mess. (Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. and Tom Burke of Ours.) Edited by Harry Lorrequer. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co., [1842]-44. 35 parts in 32. 8vo (225 x 135 mm). Frontispiece portrait, 70 plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). Advertisements on wrappers, dated Our Mess Advertiser at front of parts 1, 4 (numbered III), 11, publisher's slip at front of parts 1, 27, 32, 8 pp publisher's catalog at front of part 1, 2 pp ads at front of parts 3, 5, 6, 4 pp ads at front of part 4, 7 pp publisher's ads at front of part 12/13, 2 pp ads inserted with prelims at back of part 12/13, slip at front of part 14, 8 pp ads at back of part 30. Original rose-colored pictorial wrappers. Custom chemises and slipcases (2 vols). Faint offsetting to a few plates, sunning and soiling to wrappers, several parts rebacked and repaired. Provenance: A.M. Cohn (Cruikshank bookplates to cases); Estelle Doheny (oval morocco bookplates to cases). COHN-DOHENY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, in original monthly parts. Our Mess is comprised of two novels: Jack Hinton, the Guardsman which ran as parts 1-13; and Tom Burke of Ours, which was published as parts 14-35. Sadleir 1415 (3 vol ed).
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