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Vanity fair : a novel without a hero / by William Makepeace Thackeray ; with illustrations on wood and steel by the author.

Accession number
PML 145298
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
London : Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added etched and illustrated t.p.
Originally issued in monthly numbers, Jan. 1847-July 1848.
Illustrated with 39 etchings, 83 wood engraved vignettes, and 66 wood engraved initials after Thackeray.
Publisher's advertisements (1 p.) for Thackeray's The great Hoggerty diamond in front of text.
Library's copy has leaf with pages 335-336 removed and replaced with one from an earlier state, including the suppressed vignette of Lord Steyne; with evidence of tipping-in and obvious lacuna in the text between the last line of p. 336 and the first line of 337.
Description
xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Signature of Jemima Slack, Bath, on front flyleaf; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's dark blue-green cloth.
Classification
Department