Vanity fair: a novel without a hero

by William Makepeace Thackeray; with illustrations on wood and steel by the author

Resource Type:: Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:: London : Bradbury & Evans, 1848
Printing:: London : Bradbury and Evans, Printers
Serial Holdings:: Housed in Special Collections Bindings Collection.

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Author/Creator:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 , author
Contributors:: Bradbury & Evans , publisher, printer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt
Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery) , binder, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bnd
Chas. J. Sawyer, Ltd. , bookseller, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bsl
Vann Victorian Endowment , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr
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