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:
- Contributors:
- Bradbury & Evans , publisher, printer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prtBayntun-Riviere (Bindery) , binder, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bndChas. J. Sawyer, Ltd. , bookseller, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/bslVann Victorian Endowment , donor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/dnr
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Subjects:
- Genres:
- 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