Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, mixed issue: with the title on p. 1 in rustic type, Mr. Mott for Sir Pitt on p. 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on p. 336. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author. xvi, 624, 1 pp. 8vo. Full red crushed red levant with gilt borders, spine and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., by Bayntun Riviere.

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