THACKERAY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE Vanity Fair

Sale 2319 - Lot 275

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Vanity Fair. Illustrated with 40 etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page, and numerous in-text wood engravings. 8vo, contemporary full crimson hard-grain morocco, covers gilt-paneled, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, turn-ins, by Bayntun Riviere, all edges gilt; occasional mild foxing and discoloration to plates as is usually encountered, lacking advertisements; cloth slipcase. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848

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first edition in book form, first issue in an attractive binding. Contains the following first issue points: no street address on title-page verso, last line of dedication measuring 2 and one-eighth inches, heading on page [1] in rustic type, "Mr. Pitt" on page 453, and with the woodcut of Lord Steyne on page 336 that was later suppressed. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.