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Lambart, Rev. W., writing as "Huberto." THE GHOST OF DUNBOY CASTLE by Huberto [pseudonym]. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1889. Octavo, two volumes: [i-vii] viii-xviii [1] 2-236; [i-v] vi [1] 2-266 [267: printer's imprint] [268: blank], original pictorial gray green cloth, front panels stamped in brown, spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A dream fantasy of a young man who spends the night, with two companions, in Dunboy Castle, a ruined castle in northern Ireland reputed to be haunted. The core of the work is a historical novel set in seventeenth-century Ireland, with criminous and supernatural elements (including ghosts, or perhaps time travelers). "The seventeenth-century story is set at the end of the siege of Limerick in 1651 when the Confederates hand over the city to Cromwell's forces, and follows the fortunes and love lives of three gallant Irishmen. Interwoven is a story of a doctor who ravishes young girls; a long discussion of the relative merits of arsenic, prussic acid and morphine for the humane killing of household pets, while freemasonry is mentioned as the means of saving the life of one of the Confederate officers when he gives the secret signal of distress, which is understood by an officer in Cromwell's army." - Loeber and Loeber, p. 720. Wolff 7644. Cloth worn and soiled, re-cased with new salmon endpapers, a good copy with clean, tight interior. A very scarce book. (#170758).

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