Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$1,650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition, first printing. First issue with the headline on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of Mr. Steyne on page 336 which was later suppressed, and Mr. Pitt for Sir Pitt on page 453; bound without ads. Finely bound in somewhat contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards; with raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. Binding and gilt stamping

• Printing: first

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