8vo. x, [2], 396pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, 26 engraved plates, and nine wood engravings in the text by H. K. Browne. Contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain brown morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed. Marbled endpapers, inked ownership inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, plates foxed, offsetting.

An early Dublin edition of of the first volume of Charles Lever's (1806-1872) Our Mess series, a military romance novel, sumptuously illustrated by Halbot Knight Browne (1815-1882), better known by his pseudonym 'Phiz'.