first edition Hardcover
1875 · New York
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1875. Light red silk-covered boards. Panelled spine with gilt title and designs. Top edge gilt. Original cloth cover and spine bound-in a rear. Half-title present. Color frontispiece with tissue-guard. Slight brown discoloration top of frontispiece and title-page. See photo. "Depicting humorous incidents in his school life, and favourite scenes and characters in the books of his every-day reading". Illustrated throughout in black and white. Several full-page color illustrations as well. Quite a clean copy. 494pp. . First American Edition. 3/4 Crimson Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Thick Octavo.
(Inventory #: 014501)