Mr. Brown's letters to a young man about town

by William Makepeace Thackeray

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First edition

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1901. First edition thus, 1 of 500 numbered copies, 8vo, viii & 210pp.; spine soiled, pages partially unopened, otherwise a very good copy in orig. yellow cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. The publishers' note states that the letters originally appeared in Punch in 1849 and were included in Thackeray's Sketches in London. As an independent series of Essays written under a nom de plume not elsewhere adopted by

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