Griffin, Gerald. The Collegians: A Tale of Garryowen. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Edition de Grand Luxe. [12258]
Three-quarter morocco with vibrant marbled paper boards, matching marbled end papers, top page edges gilt, 6 gilt-decorated spine panels, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some light rubbing to the spine edges. Photogravure frontispiece, letter press tissue guard, xxv, [1], 453 clean pp., six additional plates with letter press tissue guards. Very good. Hardcover.
The World's Great Books series.
With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by James, Cardinal Gibbons.
This novel was first published in 1829, and is a tragic Irish melodrama about the devastating consequences of secret marriage, social ambition, and class division. It was based on the real-life murder of Ellen Hanley in 1819.
