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Author/Creator:

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863, author

Contributors:

Bradbury & Evans, publisher, printer

Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery), binder

Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd., bookseller

Vann Victorian Endowment, donor

Vann Collection of Victorian literature

Binding Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Vanity fair: a novel without a hero [by Thackeray, W.M.]

Subjects:

Sharp, Becky (Fictitious character) — Fiction

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 — Fiction

Social classes — Fiction

Married women — Fiction

England — Fiction

Sharp, Becky (Fictitious character)

Battle of Waterloo (Waterloo, Belgium : 1815)

1815

Married women

Social classes

England

Belgium

Genres:

Wood engravings (prints) — England — 19th century

Leather bindings (Binding) — England

Signed bindings (Binding) — England

Etchings (prints) — England — 19th century

Booksellers' labels — England

Cosway bindings (Binding) — England

Printed books — England — London — 19th century

Fiction

General Notes:

Added etched and illustrated t.p. with date "1848."
Originally issued in monthly numbers, Jan. 1847-July 1848.
Illustrated with 39 etchings, 83 wood engraved vignettes, and 66 wood engraved initials after Thackeray.
Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England, 122
Purchase; 2018.
Purchased with funds provided by the Vann Victorian Endowment, 2018.
Later Cosway binding, full blue leather with gilt decorations, cover inset with painted portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray under glass; Wide leather turn-ins with gilt decoration, and marbled paper paste-downs and free end-papers.
Bookseller's gilt stamp at base of front paste-down: "C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W."; Binder's gilt signature at base of rear paste-down: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviére), Bath, England."

Physical Description:

xvi, 624 pages, 39 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PR5618 .A1 1848

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

08017685

OCLC Numbers:

3174108