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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
COSWAY STYLE BINDING THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Vanity Fair. Illustrated with 40 etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page, and numerous in-text engravings. 8vo, bound in full red morocco gilt extra, small green morocco inlays on cornerpieces and in ornately gilt spine compartments, all edges gilt; wide inner dentelles lavishly gilt with blue morocco doublures, featuring a recessed hand-painted medallion portrait of Thackeray set under glass, blue silk moiré endpapers (few small abrasions near gutters), by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Harry Marks booklabel at rear, contents clean with minor browning; maroon cloth folding case. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848
first edition in book form, first issue in splendid Cosway style binding. With first issue points: no street address on title-page verso, heading on page [1] in rustic type, "Mr. Pitt" on page 453, and with the offending woodcut of Lord Steyne on page 336 that was later suppressed. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699; Layard, pp. 7-25.
