THACKERAY William Makepeace
£4,230
Auction: 21 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
Description
A collection of first editions by Thackeray, uniformly bound in full, light tan, polished calf, spines decorated gilt in compartments, red and green morocco lettering pieces, t.e.g., inner gilt doublures, by Riviere, 8vo. (unless otherwise stated), comprising:
Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, 12mo., 1846; Vanity Fair, issue with rustic headline on p. 1 in rustic type, the reading Mr. Pitt on p. 453, the suppressed woodcut of Lord Steyne on p. 336, but without the advert for the Great Hoggarty Diamond in the last part, 1848; Doctor Birch and his young friends, 1849; The history of Pendennis, 2 vols., 1849-50; The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond, 1849; The Kickleburys on the Rhine, 1850; The history of Henry Esmond, 3 vols., 1852; The English humourists of the 18th century, 1853; The Newcomes, 2 vols., 1854-55; Miscellanies: prose and verse, 4 vols., 1855-57; The rose and the ring, 1855; The Virginians, 2 vols., 1858-59; Lovel the widower, 1861; The four Georges, 1861; The adventures of Philip, 3 vols., 1862; Denis Duval, 1867; Thackerayana, 1875; Sultan Stork and other stories and sketches, 1887; SPIELMAN M.H. The hitherto unidentified contributions of W.M. Thackeray to "Punch", 1899 [29]