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Price: US$23.06 + shipping
Description: 6.0 x 4.0 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Slight browning to edges and endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1912. Occasional small marks inside. Else a clean and tight copy. 212 pp. With b/w plates and line drawings in text. Reprint of The Rose and The Ring, which is a satirical work of fiction written by William Makepeace Thackeray and originally published at Christmas 1854. It criticises, to some extent, the attitudes of the monarchy and those at the top of society and challenges their ideals of beauty and marriage. Set in the fictional countries of Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, the story revolves around the lives and fortunes of four young royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio. Each page is headed by a line of poetry summing up the plot at that point and the storyline as a whole is laid out, as the book states, as ?A Fireside Pantomime.? The original edition had illustrations by Thackeray who had intended a career as an illustrator.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.18 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of Walter Muir Whitehill Junior with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; Seven volumes. Contents; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The Yellowplush Correspondence / Jeames's Diary / The Great Hoggarty Diamond Etc. Travels in London / Letters to a Young Man About Town and other contributions to 'Punch'. The Virginians: a tale of the last century. A Shabby Genteel Story and The Adventures of Philip. The Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family. Subjects; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Collected works. 19th century literature. 8 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of Walter Muir Whitehill Junior with the owner's bookplate. Physical description; Seven volumes. Contents; The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The Yellowplush Correspondence / Jeames's Diary / The Great Hoggarty Diamond Etc. Travels in London / Letters to a Young Man About Town and other contributions to 'Punch'. The Virginians: a tale of the last century. A Shabby Genteel Story and The Adventures of Philip. The Newcomes: memoirs of a most respectable family. Subjects; William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). Collected works. 19th century literature. 8 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
William Makepeace Thackeray. The Works of Thackeray-20 Volume Set. MacMillan & Co LTD, London, 1911.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: / spine end / chipped / text clean / deckle front edge / illustrated / limited to 1, 000 copies / 20 volume set. VG / blue cloth with gilt on spine / covers lightly rubbed /
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.