London: Punch Office, 1848. First edition. leather_bound. 180 pages. 18 x 12 cm. His satirical taxonomy of snobs in an elegant binding by Orrock & Sons of Edinburgh -- raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in arabesques, inner dentelles, front and back covers with gilt paneling, marbled endpapers. VAN DUZER..... More
London: Henry Hooper, 1840. Cruikshank, George. First edition. leather_bound. 59 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. 17 etchings, 39 woodcuts. This appreciation by Thackeray prompted by his boyhood admiration for Cruikshank who would "forego tarts" to be able to afford a book, or set-up a "joint stock company of boys" to..... More
London: George Redway, 1884. Cruikshank, George. Hardcover. 60 pages. 27 x 18 cm. With more than forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank (frontispiece) etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. Clean, bright copy with wide text margins. COHN 789 (citing the first edition). Ex-library, ownership stamp..... More
Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Ardizzone, Edward. Hardcover. 784 pages. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Edward Ardizzione. Centenary Edition with an introduction by Angela Thirkell. Limited edition, copy 463 of 1500, signed by Ardizzione. NEWMAN & WICHE 252. With the booklates of John Whiting Friel and Helen Otillie..... More
London: John Murray, 1919. 450, 431 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Volume 1 contains the frontispiece drawing of Thackery at age three by Chinnery in 1814. More
London: John Murray, 1919. William Makepeace Thackeray. leather_bound. 450, 431 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Bound by Bumpus of Oxford. Frontispiece of Thackeray at age three with his parents]. 35 full page portraits with lettered tissue guards. Interior contents bright and Fresh. Inner dentelles, raised bands, double gilt border panels..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857-1859. Thackeray, William Makepeace. First edition. 22 x 14 cm. illustrated with forty-eight etched plates by the author; the last work he illustrated for himself. Numerous woodcut vignettes in text, and in the original 24 parts. With advertisements as noted by VAN DUZER 232, but not..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857-1859. Thackeray, William Makepeace. First edition, First Issue. 22 x 14 cm. illustrated with forty-eight etched plates by the author; the last work he illustrated for himself. Numerous woodcut vignettes in text, and in the original 24 parts. All plates generally clean and fresh. With advertisements..... More
London: Hugh Cunningham, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 299, 370 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Profusion of tinted plates by Thackeray. Front covers and spines of original edition bound-in. As a contributor to Punch Thackeray often parodied the false romantic sentiment pervading the fiction of his day. Thackeray’s work is critical..... More