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Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Full red crushed red levant with gilt borders, spine and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Bayntun Riviere. Autograph
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author. xvi, 624, [1] pp. 8vo. Full red crushed red levant with gilt borders, spine and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Bayntun Riviere. Autograph Letter, signed, inserted at front. Fine. First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author. xvi, 624, [1] pp. 8vo. Finely Bound, with an Autograph Letter, Signed. The letter, on a folded 8vo sheet, is undated, and likely written to Percival Leigh, the humorist who wrote for Punch, and who was an intimate of Thackeray.
The full text reads:
Clarendon, Sunday
Dear Mr. Leigh
I hope the clerk at the bar told you that I was prevented from coming home by illness last night. Will you call here the first morning you are free? About 9 will to the best time & I'll see you well or ill.
Fathfully yours
WM Thackeray. Van Duzer 230; Grolier English 87
The full text reads:
Clarendon, Sunday
Dear Mr. Leigh
I hope the clerk at the bar told you that I was prevented from coming home by illness last night. Will you call here the first morning you are free? About 9 will to the best time & I'll see you well or ill.
Fathfully yours
WM Thackeray. Van Duzer 230; Grolier English 87
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 366292
- Title
- Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrat
- Book Condition
- Used - Full red crushed red levant with gilt borders, spine and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Bayntun Riviere. Autograph
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic typ
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- British | Poetry | Gift Ideas | British | William Makepeace Thackeray
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Sets & Fine Bindings;
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