Title: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace Place: London Publisher: Bradbury & Evans Date: 1848 Description: xiv, 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 steel-etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (8vo) later calf-backed boards, morocco spine label. First Edition in Book Form, mixed issue, bound from the original parts. An important landmark in Victorian literature, Vanity Fair epitomized the turn towards realism and psychological truth. Contains the following first issue points: no street address imprint on the title page verso; the heading on page [1] is in rustic type; “Mr. Pitt” rather than “Sir Pitt” on page 453. However, second state of the pictorial title dated 1848 instead of 1849 and without the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; foxing; very good. Item number: 242668
Title: Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace Place: London Publisher: Bradbury & Evans Date: 1848 Description: xiv, 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 steel-etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page; plus numerous wood engravings within the text. (8vo) later calf-backed boards, morocco spine label. First Edition in Book Form, mixed issue, bound from the original parts. An important landmark in Victorian literature, Vanity Fair epitomized the turn towards realism and psychological truth. Contains the following first issue points: no street address imprint on the title page verso; the heading on page [1] is in rustic type; “Mr. Pitt” rather than “Sir Pitt” on page 453. However, second state of the pictorial title dated 1848 instead of 1849 and without the suppressed woodcut of the Marquis of Steyne on page 336. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; foxing; very good. Item number: 242668
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