Thackeray's Vanity Fair finely bound
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Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Title: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero
Place Published: London
Publisher:Bradbury & Evans
Date Published: 1848
Description: xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated with numerous steel-etched plates, including frontispiece and added pictorial title page; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (8vo) bound in full calf with French fillet borders, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, gilt floriate inners, all edges gilt. First edition in book form.An important landmark in Victorian literature, Vanity Fair epitomized the turn towards realism and psychological truth. Early printing, with points including: dedication leaf in small type with last line measuring 2¼ inches; heading on page 1 in rustic type; woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336; ”Mr. Pitt” rather than ”Sir Pitt” on page 453. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Title: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero
Place Published: London
Publisher:Bradbury & Evans
Date Published: 1848
Description: xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated with numerous steel-etched plates, including frontispiece and added pictorial title page; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (8vo) bound in full calf with French fillet borders, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, gilt floriate inners, all edges gilt. First edition in book form.An important landmark in Victorian literature, Vanity Fair epitomized the turn towards realism and psychological truth. Early printing, with points including: dedication leaf in small type with last line measuring 2¼ inches; heading on page 1 in rustic type; woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336; ”Mr. Pitt” rather than ”Sir Pitt” on page 453. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.
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Corners gently bumped, light wear to joints, occasional spotting or dampstaining but overall a remarkably clean copy, near fine.
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Thackeray's Vanity Fair finely bound
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