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    By William Makepeace Thackeray
    London   Bradbury and Evans
    7.5" by 5" viii, 510; iv, 494; vii, 514; vii, 450pp
    An attractive complete set of Thackeray's poetry and prose, being the first Bradbury and Evans edition published shortly after the Tauchnitz edition.
    By William Makepeace Thackeray

    1855-1857 Miscellanies: Prose and Verse

    London   Bradbury and Evans
    7.5" by 5" viii, 510; iv, 494; vii, 514; vii, 450pp
    An attractive complete set of Thackeray's poetry and prose, being the first Bradbury and Evans edition published shortly after the Tauchnitz edition.
    £170.00
    : 2kgs / : 952Y49
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    Description

    Leather Binding

    The first thus of this collection of Thackeray's shorter works. A Tauchnitz edition was issued as eight volumes from 1849-1857.

    Complete in four volumes. 

    Uniformly bound in half calf, with decorative gilt to the spines and cloth boards.

    Offering a pleasing selection of the poetry and shorter prose of William Makepeace Thackeray, an English writer best known for his satirical portrayals of British society, notably with his novels 'Vanity Fair' and 'The Luck of Barry Lyndon'. He is also known to have popularised the term 'snob'. 

    Many of these verses were written under various pseudonyms Thackeray created whilst in the early stages of his career, including Charles James Yellowplush and George Savage Fitz-Boodle.

    Condition

    Uniformly bound in half calf. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. With the bookplate of one Frank T. Paul to the front pastedowns. Pages are generally bright and clean, with

    Very Good

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