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The Fly : being a collection of interesting stories in prose and verse, beautifully illustrated.

Accession number
PML 196748
Published
Belfast, 1840-1841.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Every purchaser of this number of The Fly, is entitled to an exquisitely-exectued Lithographic Print...which is presented gratuitously. -- [A similar print with every number. The numbers of the New Series may be had.
PML copy with prints bound before each number. Additional article clippings and manuscript material bound at beginning and end of each volume.
PML copy, vol. I also contains nos. 1-2, 6, 8-10, 12, 14-18, 20-21, 23 of The Star from January-June 1840.
PML copy, vol. II with ms note: "Is a Periodical of a cheap kind, there can be no doubt that the 'Fly' is one of the best that ever was offered to the Public...," singed C.N., Belfast, 31 July 1840.
PML copy: vol. I contains nos. 2-62; vol. II contains nos. 1-85; vol. I contains nos. 86-149 (new series no. 20).
Description
3 v.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
1/2 black morocco.
Classification
Department