Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$350 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evan, 1848. 8vo, xvi, 624 pp. Engraved title and 38 of 39 plates lacking final plate and numerous woodcuts. Bound without ads in modern quarter calf and early blue paper boards, new endpapers. Preliminaries through contents leaf rehinged, boards a little worn and toned, offsetting from the plates; a sound copy. § First edition in book form of Thackeray's comic masterpiece; early issue lacking the rustic title, and the woodcut of the

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