Vanity Fair

by Fine Binding - Cosway style, William Makepeace Thackeray

$9,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. First issue with the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336, with Mr. Pitt for Sir Pitt on page 453, and the rustic heading on page one. Octavo 8 5/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm. . xvi, 624 pp, with thirty-eight black and white steel engraved plates with tissue guards and one hundred and fifty woodcuts in the text by

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