Accession number
PML 145449
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 1861.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st English ed.
Originally published as a serial in the Cornhill magazine, January-June, 1860; also published in Harper's monthly magazine, February-July, 1860.
A story adapted from the author's play "The wolves and the lamb" written about 1854 and acted by amateurs, including Thackeray, at his house in Kensington, February, 1862, printed for the first time in his collected works published by Smith, Elder and co., 1879, v. 24. cf. Grolier club, Bibl. of Thackeray; R.H. Shepherd, Bibl. of Thackeray.
Illustrated with full-page and textual wood engravings after designs by the author.
Originally published as a serial in the Cornhill magazine, January-June, 1860; also published in Harper's monthly magazine, February-July, 1860.
A story adapted from the author's play "The wolves and the lamb" written about 1854 and acted by amateurs, including Thackeray, at his house in Kensington, February, 1862, printed for the first time in his collected works published by Smith, Elder and co., 1879, v. 24. cf. Grolier club, Bibl. of Thackeray; R.H. Shepherd, Bibl. of Thackeray.
Illustrated with full-page and textual wood engravings after designs by the author.
Description
258, 16 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engraving) ; 21 cm.
Provenance
Signature of A.O.D. Taylor, Belfast, 1864, on t.p.; bookplate of A.J. Cocking; gift inscription to Andrew Marshall Porter; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's purple cloth, blocked in blind.
Classification
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