LEVER, Charles (1806-72). The Military Novels. London, [c.1892], 9 volumes, 8vo, attractively bound in contemporary green half morocco gilt (spines faded). NUMBER 176 OF 500 "EDITION DE LUXE" SETS. (9)

LEVER, Charles (1806-72).  The Military Novels. London: George Routledge and Sons, [c.1892]. 9 volumes, 8vo (198 x 132mm). Wood-engraved frontispieces, title vignettes, plates and illustrations. Attractively bound in contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt (spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of Wilfrid Ward (armorial bookplate); "Gardner S. Bazley, Magd. Coll. Oxon" (bookplate). NUMBER 176 OF 500 "EDITION DE LUXE" SETS. "[Charles Lever], born and educated in Dublin, qualified as an MD and practised in Ireland. He became a prolific and successful novelist, writing chiefly of military and Irish life ... Lever received much encouragement and advice from Thackeray, and was admired by G. Eliot and A. Trollope" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Drabble, 1985). (9)