New York: Lovell: Adam, Wesson & Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

Charles James Dunphie was an Irish journalist, art and literary critic, songwriter and poet. He was one of the founders of the Patriotic Fund Journal (1854-55), a weekly miscellany of general literature, to which he contributed prose and verse under the pseudonym of 'Melopoyn,' the profits being devoted to the Patriotic Fund. In 1856 he left The Times to become art and dramatic critic to the Morning Post. which he continued until 1895. [wiki]

Maroon cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations in black; blind stamp on the rear board. The bindings are firm with endpaper split at the hinge; Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed corners and spine tips and some small loss of color on the front. 8vo; viii, 362 pages; 19 cm. Lacking frontispiece. First Edition, First Printing.

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