Accession number
PML 145529
Creator
Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919.
Published
[London] : Smith, Elder, & Co., 190-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Spine title.
Collection of Mrs. Ritchie's 13 introductions to the volumes of her father's works, as previously published by Smith, Elder & Co. Evidently publisher's proof copies, with some of the pieces containing editorial marks and corrections in manuscript; possibly created in preparation for the publisher's Centenary Edition of Thackeray's works which began to appear in 1910.
Individual pieces initialed at end: A.I.R; Mrs. Ritchie's introduction to Thackeray's "Miscellanies" dated: 13th February 1899.
Collection of Mrs. Ritchie's 13 introductions to the volumes of her father's works, as previously published by Smith, Elder & Co. Evidently publisher's proof copies, with some of the pieces containing editorial marks and corrections in manuscript; possibly created in preparation for the publisher's Centenary Edition of Thackeray's works which began to appear in 1910.
Individual pieces initialed at end: A.I.R; Mrs. Ritchie's introduction to Thackeray's "Miscellanies" dated: 13th February 1899.
Description
1 v. in various pagings : ill., facsim. ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Gift inscription on verso of front flyleaf, "Simon Nowell Smith 1932. given to Gordon N. Ray 1948."
Provenance
Book label of W. Brown; gift inscription by former owner Simon Nowell Smith; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red cloth stamped in gold on front board with the initials of W.M. Thackeray and Anne Ritchie; title, author, and publisher lettered in gold on spine.
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