VANITY FAIR.
first edition Hardcover
1848 · London
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. Cover and spine designs in blind-stamp. Finely rebacked with original spine laid-down. Spine gilt title bright. Several small pieces of old spine are missing.. Covers rubbed with several spots on rear cover. Yellow endpapers have been repaired at the hinges front and back. Green notice tipped-in at front advertising the new work by Thackeray, "Pendennis". The "Great Hoggarty Diamond" page is present preceding the engraved frontispiece and title-page. The date 1848 is on both title-pages. Some peripheral browning and foxing to plates, off-setting onto adjacent pages. Forty plates including the frontispiece. Numerous text illustrations, and chapter first-letter embellishments, done on steel and wood by the author. This copy is an early issue of the first edition. It does not have the rustic type on p.1 nor the suppressed plate at p.336. "Mr. Pitt" is present at p.453. See Van Duzer 231. 624pp.. First Edition, Early Issue. Blue Cloth. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Thick Octavo. (Inventory #: 000833)