Accession number
PML 145297
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
London : Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Library's copy has t.p. decorated with a pen and ink vignette drawing in the hand of the author, showing two children, a little boy blowing bubbles with a pipe and a little girl embracing a doll, seated in front of a stone slab or tombstone.
Description
viii, 584 p. ; 20 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription on front flyleaf reads: Presented to me by my father-in-law John J. Merriman, shortly before his death in 1896. The pen & ink sketch was in playful allusion to Mr. & Mrs. Merriman with their first child, afterwards my wife. G. Cyril Bowman 21st Sept. 1896 16 Longridge Road Earls Court S.W.
Provenance
Author's presentation inscription to John J. Merriman, dated 1853, on t.p.; signed note by G. Cyril Bowman on front flyleaf; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's brown cloth blocked in blind.
Classification
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