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The Works.
by THACKERAY, William Makepeace
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Co.,, 1869 & 1886. The first publication of his oeuvre First collected edition. This set is supplemented with Volumes XXIII and XXIV, which were issued in 1886, 17 years after the initial 22 volumes. These volumes include Thackeray's miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch. The edition is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce the illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stories" (Ray, p. 75). 24 volumes, octavo (205 x 132 mm). Contemporary purple half calf by Henry Young and Sons, Liverpool, spine with raised bands, elaborately tooled in compartments, double blue morocco labels, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. With 22 engraved frontispieces (one folding in vol. XVII), engraved plates and illustrations in text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker; oval portraits printed in red in vol. XIX. Bindings bright, spines sunned, occasional surface abrasions to boards and leather, scattered foxing to contents, damp stain to edges of opening leaves of vol. II. A very good set. Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 1992.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170190
- Title
- The Works.
- Author
- THACKERAY, William Makepeace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Smith, Elder & Co.,
- Date Published
- 1869 & 1886
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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