Thackeray (William Makepeace) Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, first edition, first issue with the suppressed woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on p.336 and "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p.453, etched frontispiece, additional vignette title-page, and 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes throughout, lacking initial advertisement f., light marginal toning to plates and endpapers, some light offsetting, a few small marginal stains, attractive contemporary burgundy morocco with triple gilt fillet border by Zaehnsdorf, spine lettered and ruled in gilt compartments, inner dentelles richly gilt with flower motif, t.e.g., very slight rubbing to lower edge and upper joint, Bradbury & Evans, 1848; and 9 others, 8vo (10)*** The first issue of Thackeray's iconic novel, in exquisite gilt binding by Zaehnsdorf.