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Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty-Six Volumes Limited Edition Publication Dates: 1878-1886
Thackeray, William Makepeace · London
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Date
- 1878
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 3/4 dark blue leather
- Format
- 4to (7.5"x 10.75") Dark green Zaehnsdorf leather with generous corners, leather edges ruled in gilt, over green marble boards. 5 raised, gilt decorated compartments with gilt author/title to second compartment, sub title/ volnumber to fourth. Gilt floral devices centered to other compartments. Gilt date at foot. Top edge gilt, marble endpapers. Bookplates of "John and Rebecca Lowrie" to each volume. Armorial bookplate of "Ella Park Lawrence George Appleton Lawrence" to others. Each volume has plates, some in text. Engraved Frontispiece of William makepeace Thackery to vol 1 of Vanity Fair. List of titles include; Vanity Fair, History of Pendennis, The Newcombes, Burlesques, The Memoirs of Mr. C.J. Yellowplush, The Fitz-Boodle Papers, Cox's Diary and Character Sketches, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond, A little Dinner at Timmins's, Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo, among many others. A beautiful set of books with very minor shelf wear overall. A limited edition, "Only One Thousand Copies of this Edition have been Printed for Sale. This Copy is Number 873".
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.1944
Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Fifty-Two Volumes Limited Edition
4to (7.5"x 10.75") 1878-86. Thackeray, William Makepeace. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place.
Dark green Zaehnsdorf leather with generous corners, leather edges ruled in gilt, over green marble boards. 5 raised, gilt decorated compartments with gilt author/title to second compartment, sub title/ vol number to fourth. Gilt floral devices centered to other compartments. Gilt date at foot. Top edge gilt, marble endpapers. Bookplates of "John and Rebecca Lowrie" to each volume. Armorial bookplate of "Ella Park Lawrence George Appleton Lawrence" to others.
Each volume has plates, some in text. Engraved Frontispiece of William Makepeace Thackery to vol 1 of Vanity Fair. List of titles include; Vanity Fair, History of Pendennis, The Newcombes, Burlesques, The Memoirs of Mr. C.J. Yellowplush, The Fitz-Boodle Papers, Cox's Diary and Character Sketches, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond, A little Dinner at Timmins's, Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo, among many others. A beautiful set of books with very minor shelf wear overall. A limited edition, "Only One Thousand Copies of this Edition have been Printed for Sale. This Copy is Number 873".
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