Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition, first issue, with heading in rustic type on p. 1, woodcut on p. 336, and "Mr. Pitt" on p. 453.
Large octavo. xvi, 624 pp., with forty engraved plates, including engraved title and frontispiece. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label and five raised bands. Some rubbing and edge-wear to extremities, mild foxing to plates, but still a very good copy.
First edition of Thackeray's most popular novel.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was one of the most successful English novelists of his day. Known primarily for his satirical works (most notably Vanity Fair), he was second only to Charles Dickens in popularity and renown.
Van Duzer 231.
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