1860-1867 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

This collection was gifted to Henry Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist, by author Thomas Gray, for assisting in editing his work, the 'Civil Service Geography'. With a contemporary inscription detailing this exchange to the front endpaper of 'Vanity Fair'. The inscription is followed by Austin Dobson's own, stating the collection to be handed to his son, Clement Dobson and signed by Austin to the bottom. 

Best known for his graceful and polished verse, Dobson was a leading figure in the late-Victorian literary scene, reviving forms that had fallen out of fashion and contributing to the broader aesthetic movement known as Aestheticism. 

A selection of eighteen works from English novelist, illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray, best known for his satirical works such as 'Vanity Fair' and 'The Luck of Barry Lyndon'.

Comprising the first edition of 'Lovel the Widower', 'Roundabout Papers' and 'Denis Duval' and other various unstated later editions and impressions, unless stated otherwise. 

All volumes have been uniformly rebound in a smart half crushed morocco, with decorative gilt to the spines and marbled endpapers. 

The entirety of this set comprises the following volumes:

Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, Vol I (1861), Vol II (1860), Vol III (1862) & Vol IV (1860)

Lovel the Widower (1861) – Frontispiece and five plates.

Roundabout Paper (1863) – Frontispiece, one further plate and numerous vignettes.

The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century (1863)

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (1864)

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family (1864) – Edited by Arthur Pendennis

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy (1864)

The Irish Sketch-Book 1842 (1865) – Frontispiece and vignettes throughout.  

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne (1866)

The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World; Shewing who Robbed him, who Helped him, and who Passed him by (1866)

The Paris Sketch Book (1866) – Frontispiece and eleven plates.

Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins’s Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch (1866) – Folding frontispiece, illustrated title page and twenty plates.

The Rose and the Ring; or, the History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo (1866) – Fourth edition. Frontispiece, vignette title, seven plates and numerous vignettes throughout.

The Four Georges (1866) – Frontispiece, one further plate and numerous vignettes.

Denis Duval (1867)

Collated, complete.