first edition Hardcover
1841 · London
by Thackeray, William Makepeace [M.A.Titmarsh]
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco and matching cloth. Teg. Fine. 2 vols. 299, 370 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Profusion of tinted plates by Thackeray. Front covers and spines of original edition bound-in. As a contributor to Punch Thackeray often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. Thackeray's work is critical of the Victorian bourgeois era, combining an understanding of socio-historical patterns with a vision of life as an unending masquerade. Clean copy, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt arabesques. VAN DUZER 35. (Inventory #: 21893)