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Price: US$7.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 25: Miscellaneous Essays, Sketches and Reviews. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. 8vo. Green cloth covers. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Covers slightly scuffed. Stamp decorated. Clear text and illustrations. Foxing. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback Volume XXVI of The Works,thick 8vo,xii prelims,404pp text and verses with numerous text drawings,13pp caricatures.Very good in green boards with stamped pattern,gilt spine titles and WMT in gilt on upper board.Corner tips and top edge rubbed,previous owner's inscription at top of 1st blank states To Max with love 1938 (during Pax Brittanicus).Reputed to be Max Beerbohm from his library.Minor spotting of prelims,internally clean and tight.No D/W. Heavy volume at 1.5kgs.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$8.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Image shows actual item for sale. Book Condition: Very Good; firm binding; contents very good. Hard Cover Smith Elder 1886 Fiction Literature
Seller: Sonnets And Symphonies, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.65 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Contributions to "Punch". Original covers. Slight foxing throughout, worse towards front and back. Covers are scuffed especially at the corners and edges of backstrip. Top and bottom of backstrip is tatty. Pages are uncut.This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1250grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. no spine label cracking hinge
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards have some wear. Content has light toning. Toning, some spotting to page ends. No DJ
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Part of The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in 26 volumes, thus being volume 26. Browning on top page edges and some spotting on side page edges. 13 pages of full page caricatures with text at the rear and many illustrations in the text. Solid and tight binding.
Seller: best books, st. leonards on sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.07 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original decorated and gilt lettered green cloth, illustrated with b/w drawings, 8vo. Volume XIV of The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty-Six Volumes.; Some foxing; edges slightly worn.
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth, VG. viii+776pp, engraved frontis, title browned due to the presence of the tissue guard, corners a little bumped & rubbed, Volume III of the publishers 'Works of William Makepeace Thackeray', but without an ordinal to the spine. 'Thackeray's great 'middle class epic', the tragedy of worldliness. Barnes Newcome is the most odious charachter Thackeray ever drew'. [Baker & Packmam] 875 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
Price: US$13.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1886-01-01. Smith, Elder. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE Edgewear. Rubbed. Foxing.
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative Green Cloth W/Gilt Lettering On Spine. Popular Edition. Corners Just Worn Through. Some Rubbing To Edges. Binding Very Good. No jacket.
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering and borders on spine, elaborate blind-stamped decoration on cover, brown endpapers. Illustrated with drawings by the author, Frank Dicksee, Linley Sambourne, F. Barnard, and Frederick Walker. . Head and heel of spine mildly worn, front hinge just starting, old newspaper clipping tipped-in on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray Series. Vol. 23. Drawings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 338 pp
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good condition book. Light shelf wear with severe rubbing to spine edges. A small split to spine. Internal contents are pleasantly clear and tidy for their age. A well-preserved copy within. Features 'The Adventures of Philip'. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
William Makepeace Thackeray. The Newcomes. Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1886.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A very handsome edition bound in brown quarter leather with gold title, raised band spine, gold ornamentation and marbled front and back covers. Vol III of the Works in 13 volumes, edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. With a frontispiece. Outside marbled covers slightly rubbed. Edges darkened with age and bottom edge with one stain. No dust jacket. Onion skin paper over frontispiece has two small holes in it. A beautiful addition to any bookshelf. Please contact us for photos.
Seller: Books & Cabinets, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.80 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This First Edition hardback was published by Smith, Elder, and Co. in 1886. The book comes from a single owner collection and it is in extraordinarily impressive condition. All pages of text are either 'Fine' or very close to it. The attractive green leather and gilt patterned binding is only perhaps in 'Near Fine'. There are black-coloured endpapers. There are 361 numbered pages which are followed by some often uncut pages of 'Caricatures'. There are numerous line drawings printed with the text as illustrations. The size of the book in inches is 8.7 x 5.6 and it weighs 0.90 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35.
Seller: Dartmouth Books, West Molesey, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This First Edition hardback was published by Smith, Elder, and Co. in 1886. The book comes from a single owner collection and it is in extraordinarily impressive condition. All pages of text are either 'Fine' or very close to it. The attractive green leather and gilt patterned binding is only perhaps in 'Near Fine'. There are black-coloured endpapers. There are 416 numbered pages which are followed by some often uncut pages of 'Caricatures'. There are numerous line drawings printed with the text as illustrations. The size of the book in inches is 8.7 x 5.6 and it weighs 0.96 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35.
Seller: Dartmouth Books, West Molesey, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: advertisement (for book). Dark brown coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated, throughout, by the the author's own drawings. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured decoration to the front panel, black coloured decoration and gilt coloured titles to the back strip and blind stamped decoration to the rear panel. The last of a 26 volume set of William MakepeaceThackeray's works; this being the input to the magazine "Punch" in the 19th century. Included are lectures  on various subjects, miscellaneous contributions, a few poems, on snobbery of various forms and a section on the author's caricatures  both as an author and of people seen. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with bumping, rubbing and slight fraying of the book corners. Rubbing to the lower book edges. A few small marks to the front fore edge. Browning and scattered foxing of the text block edges, and throughout the book. Light browning of the pages. Previous owners name to the top edge of the title page and the front hinge has cracked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], X - XI, [4], 4 - 358, [32  of which 28 are the author's caricatures and the last two are further titles from the author] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: William MakepeaceThackeray. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; illustrated; Britain/UK; 19th century; Humour. Inventory No: 0122401.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$34.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1886. Title page dated 1886. Single volume from a 26 volume set of Thackeray's works which includes full page engravings as well as additional illustrations throughout the text. Attractively bound in three quarter greenish brown morocco leather over marbled boards, binding by Riviere, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers, book about 9 inches tall. Spine slightly faded to a pleasing dark tan, some fairly light expected shelfwear mainly rubbed edges, spine ends a little worn, some brown spotting near the spine head, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages with the armorial bookplate of R. Horace Gallatin inside the front cover, no other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 13th volume of a 13 volume set, green cloth, 628 slightly yellowed pages, some pages uncut.
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 volumes of Thackerary's 'Punch' contributions, complete. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in lustrous full brown polished calf, spines with raised band, three red morocco labels, elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, and four small red morocco inlays tooled in gilt, covers bordered with three fillets in gilt, with four red morocco inlays at corners tooled in gilt, inner dentelles tooled with four gilt fillets and a repeating pattern in blind, all edges extra gilt (light rubbing to spines). Plates in chine colle by Thackeray. Copy #229 of 1000. The set from which this work comes, originaly issued in 24 volumes, was extended to 52 by Zaehnsdorf. PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate of William P. Hoffman.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 volumes, 'Essays', etc. complete. Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in a lustrous full brown polished calf, spines with raised band, three red morocco labels, elaborate gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, and four small red morocco inlays tooled in gilt, covers bordered with three fillets in gilt, with four red morocco inlays at corners tooled in gilt, inner dentelles tooled with four gilt fillets and a repeating pattern in blind, all edges extra gilt (light rubbing to spines). Plates in chine colle by Thackeray. Copy #229 of 1000. The set from which this work comes, originaly issued in 24 volumes, was extended to 52 by Zaehnsdorf. PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate of William P. Hoffman.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$114.48 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A quarter leather bound edition with marbled boards of Volume 26 of 'The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray' and his 'Contributions to Punch' complete with the authors own illustrations. A beautiful last volume copy of The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray', in a half morocco binding with marbled paper boards. Collated, complete with the author's illustrations within the text and 13 caricature plates. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was a notable British author known for his highly satirical work 'Vanity Fair' that provided a scathing yet comical 'panoramic portrait of English Society'. Thackery also regularly contributed pieces to 'Punch' between the years 1843 and 1854 which are conveniently assembled and collected within this copy, and the other twenty-six volumes in the series. In a half dark brown morocco binding with marbled paper boards. Elaborate gilded border to edge of half binding. Gilded title to spine with gilded floral decoration. Externally, very smart. Minor shelfwear to extremities. Slight rubbing to the front joint and raised bands on spine. Small cracks to the front joint. Tidemarks to the rear board. The front hinge is strained but firm. Red, pink and gold marbled pastedown and front and back free end-papers. Prior owner's bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Pencil markings to verso of front free-endpaper. Hine split and tender before half title page. Occasional rough cut bottom page edges throughout Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot throughout. Foxing to the very fore-edge of pages, only visible to text block. Collated, complete with illustrations and 13 caricature plates. Black spotting to verso of plate ix, 'A Tea-Table Tragedy' and recto of plate x, 'Half an Hour Before Dinner'. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair. Smith Elder, London, 1886.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy, 2volumes,gilt to spine,green cloth.Part of 26 volume set of Works, additional digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia
William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair. Smith Elder, London, 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy, 2volumes,gilt to spine,green cloth.Part of 26 volume set of Works, additional digital photos available. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: ballinilara investments, brisbane, QLD, Australia
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 13 vols. 8vo. Half tan calf, gilt spine, blue and red title labels and marbled boards. Some wear, one joint split. VG
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$445.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: COMPLETE SET IN 24 X VOLUMES, ALL PUBLISHED IN 1869 OTHER THAN VOLUMES 23 & 24 WHICH WERE PUBLISHED IN 1886. ALL HARDBACKS BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED BINDINGS WITH GILT INITIALS TO FRONT & REAR BOARDS, FRONTIS TO SEVERAL VOLUMES WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS THAT ARE FULL PAGE & AMONG TEXT TO MOST VOLUMES. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. SOME MINOR WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINES WITH A SMALL TEAR TO TOP OF SPINE ON THE FOUR GEORGES & BASE OF SPINE ON VOLUME 1 OF PHILIP, OCCASIONAL MINOR CRACKS TO INNER FRONT OR REAR HINGES BUT WITH ALL BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED, OCCASIONAL BROWNING TO ENDPAPERS, HALF TITLES, PAGES OR PAGE MARGINS, THESE BOOKS ARE UNREAD WITH A NUMBER OF PAGES STILL UNCUT BUT AN EASY FIX WITH A SHARP BLADE. OVERALL IN VERY NICE CONDITION WITH GILT TO ALL COVERS BRIGHT & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. HEAVY BOOKS. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS WILL APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$559.69 + shipping
Description: Complete set of 24 Volumes. Hardbacks, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound green morocco leather and marbled paper to boards. Fine binding by ?Hatchards, Piccadilly.? With gilt line edging, raised banding and gilt floral decorations to spines. Marbled endpapers and gilt top page edges. In very good conditions. Some handling and shelfwear, spines a little darkened, edges rubbed, corners bumped and chipped. Rubbing and some chips/nicks to ends of spines. Some occasional minor handling marks and occasional minor foxing spots, else inside pages all very clean and tight. No penned inscriptions. Binders stamp to corners of endpapers. Else a very good clean and tight set. 24 volumes. Illustrated by the Author with steel engraved full-page plates, including decorative title pages, and many vignettes within text. Volumes are: Vanity Fair, 1 & 2; Pendennis, 3 & 4; The Newcomes, 5 & 6; Henry Esmond, 7; The Virginians, 8 & 9; Philip I, 10; Philip II, 11; Paris Sketch Book etc 12;Barry Lyndon etc 13; Irish Sketch Book etc, 14; Book of Snobs etc, 15; Burlesques, 16: Christmas Books, 17: Ballads, 18: Four Georges, 19; Roundabout papers, 20; Denis Duval, Lovel The Widower etc, 21; Catherine etc, 2;: Misc. Essays & Sketches, 23; Contributions to Punch, 24.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Thackeray, William Makepeace. The Works of. Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1886.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. 24 vols. 8vo. CBEL III: 429 Three-quarters green morocco, art nouveau gilt floral motifs on spine, leather title label, flat spine, spines quite faded and dry, else Very good
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$795.01 + shipping
Description: 24 volumes. Octavo. Contemporary dark green half morocco by Riviere, with gilt titles and elaborate gilt decoration to spines in 3 compartments; light green cloth boards with gilt rule; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. With illustrations by the author. Spines evenly faded to brown. Binding a little bumped. A very decorative, sound set in an old leather binding.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$1017.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine Library Set of Thackeray's Works. Bound in Half Red Burgundy leather with raised bands to spine, gilt tooling for author, title and year and gilt motif of a seated lion to each volume. Marbling to boards and endpapers. 26 Volumes.
Seller: No. 5 Rare Books, Caistor, United Kingdom
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Works.. London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869 & 1886, 1886.
Price: US$1590.03 + shipping
Description: First collected edition of the author's writings, in an attractive uniform binding, and here supplemented with volumes 23 & 24, which were later issued in 1886 and include his miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch magazine. The set is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce Thackeray's illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stor[ies]" (Ray, p. 75). Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 122. 24 volumes, octavo (210 x 133 mm). Contemporary green half morocco by Bayntun, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with floral design, green cloth sides, sides and corners ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces, folding in vol. 17, and prolific engraved plates and illustrations in the text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker; oval portraits printed in red in vol. 19. Front pastedowns with illustrated bookplate of George Crews Mcghee (1912-2005), US ambassador to Turkey. Bindings unevenly sunned to brown and slightly rubbed with a couple of spots, still a very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First collected edition. Twenty-two volumes with two additional, uniform 1886 volumes, *Miscellaneous Essays* and *Contributions to Punch*, making 24 volumes in total. Very good in three-quarter blue leather with marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, leather has a few scattered scuffs at the spine ends and on some of the raised bands, light wear at the corners; Volume One has some glue residue on the front endpaper. A nice set.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2475.00 + shipping
Description: 24 volumes. First Edition Thus, a copy with fine provenance, coming from the collection of Francis Weld Peabody with his bookplate. Illustrated throughout with full-page engravings and engravings within the text. A profusion of illustrations by Thackeray himself. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere and Son in three-quarter red morocco over cloth covered boards, the spines fully gilt with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments of the spine with elaborate floral tooling incorporating vines, leaves and flowers, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, top edges gilt. A handsome and well preserved set, some minor rubbing to the tips and extremities of some volumes, but still a handsome, tight, clean and well preserved set in beautiful bindings. A HANDSOME SET IN RIVIERE BINDINGS OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THACKERAY. Anthony Trollope wrote glowingly of one of Thackeray's best books--"I regard [Henry Esmond] as the greatest work that Thackeray did.I.rank it so high as to justify me in placing him among the small number of the highest class of English novelists.The excellence which has been reached here Thackeray achieved, without doubt, by giving a greater amount of forethought to the work he had before him than had been his wont. .Forethought is the elbow-grease which a novelist--requieres.To think of a story is much harder work than to write it.[T]o think it over as you lie in bed, or walk about, or sit cosily over your fire, to turn ita all in your thoughts and make the things fit,--that requires elbow grease of the mind.The richness of the author's mind the beauty of his language, his imagination and perception of character are all there.Esmond is a whole from beginning to end, with its tale well told, its purppose developed, its moral brought home." And of Thackeray's great novel, VANITY FAIR, first published in 1848, there is no denying that it is an important work of 19th century literature. Thackeray used the novels Napoleonic era and its setting within a worldly society to mirror the society of his own with great success. Though having been well published, largely in Punch, this was Thackerays first novel of significance. It cemented his position within the canon of 19th century writers and still remains his most famous and popular nove. It is the first of the novels and writings presented in this fine set of the writer's work. Concerning the provenance, Dr. Francis Weld Peabody was the son of Rev. Francis Greenwood Peabody who was a professor of theology at Harvard, a social reformer, and as Plummer Professor essentially the "preacher of Harvard" (Peter Gomes was among the others who filled this position). In 1886 he became Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, with charge of the college chapel, filling the position which Dr. Andrew P. Peabody had held up to 1881. In this office he remained until January, 1913, when he became professor emeritus. He also was Acting Dean of the Divinity School on two occasions during the absence of Dean Everett, and was Dean from 1901 to 1905. In all these fields of work, as a preacher, teacher, author, administrator, he was a master, and most of all in the art of contentful and beneficent living.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Works.. London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869 & 1886, 1886.
Price: US$2544.05 + shipping
Description: First collected edition of the author's writings, in a handsome uniform binding, and here supplemented with volumes 23 & 24, which were later issued in 1886 and include his miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch magazine. The set is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce Thackeray's illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stor[ies]" (Ray, p. 75). Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 122. 24 volumes, octavo (207 x 134 mm). Contemporary blue crushed half morocco by Bayntun, spines lettered and framed in gilt, blue cloth sides, sides and corners ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Engraved frontispieces, folding in vol. 17, and prolific engraved plates and illustrations in the text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker; oval portraits printed in red in vol. 19. Some occasional light foxing, partial toning to endpapers, corners a little rubbed, an excellent set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Works.. London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869 & 1886, 1886.
Price: US$2544.05 + shipping
Description: First collected edition of Thackeray's complete works, beautifully illustrated, in a handsome binding. The Rowfant Bindery was established in 1910 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Henri Hardy, Leon Maillard, and Thomas James Holmes, shortly after the closing of the Club Bindery in New York, with which all three had been associated. This set is supplemented with volumes 23 & 24, which were later issued in 1886 and include Thackeray's miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch magazine. The set is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce the illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stor[ies]" (Ray, p. 75). This set has a pleasing Cleveland association, from the library of Carolyn and Melville Haskell, with their bookplate to the front pastedowns. Melville Haskell's father was Coburn Haskell (1868-1922), a prominent Cleveland businessman and sportsman, and inventor of the modern golf ball. Haskell collected, amongst other things, first editions of early illustrators. Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 122. 24 volumes, octavo (204 x 134 mm). Early 20th-century red half morocco by the Rowfant Bindery, spines with raised bands dotted in gilt, lettering and ornaments gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces, folding frontispiece to vol. XVII, engraved plates and illustrations in text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker, oval portraits printed in red in vol. XIX. A lovely set, bright and sharp, superficial crack to front joint of vol. IV, repair to short tear to fore margin of one leaf in vol. XX, some faint toning to contents, but otherwise clean.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Works.. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869 & 1886, 1886.
Price: US$2544.05 + shipping
Description: First collected edition. This set is supplemented with Volumes XXIII and XXIV, which were issued in 1886, 17 years after the initial 22 volumes. These volumes include Thackeray's miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch. The edition is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce the illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stories" (Ray, p. 75). Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 1992. 24 volumes, octavo (205 x 132 mm). Contemporary purple half calf by Henry Young and Sons, Liverpool, spine with raised bands, elaborately tooled in compartments, double blue morocco labels, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. With 22 engraved frontispieces (one folding in vol. XVII), engraved plates and illustrations in text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker; oval portraits printed in red in vol. XIX. Bindings bright, spines sunned, occasional surface abrasions to boards and leather, scattered foxing to contents, damp stain to edges of opening leaves of vol. II. A very good set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
THACKERAY, William Makepeace.. The Works.. London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869 & 1886, 1886.
Price: US$4770.09 + shipping
Description: First collected edition of the author's writings, handsomely bound by Riviere, and here supplemented with volumes 23 & 24, which were later issued in 1886 and include his miscellaneous essays, reviews, and contributions to Punch magazine. The set is pleasingly illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes, many after drawings by Thackeray himself. Modern editions seldom reproduce Thackeray's illustrations in full and "the reader is deprived thereby not only of much amusement but also of important clues to the meaning of the stor[ies]" (Ray, p. 75). Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914, 122. 24 volumes, octavo (208 x 135 mm). Finely bound by Riviere & Son in green crushed morocco, spines lettered and profusely decorated in gilt, sides decorated with multiple gilt fillets and corner-pieces, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins ruled in gilt with corner-pieces, burgundy endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces, folding in vol. 17, and prolific engraved plates and illustrations in the text by Thackeray, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, and Frederick Walker; oval portraits printed in red in vol. 19. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Charles Cobb Walker (1871-1950); blind library stamp to title pages. The occasional minor blemish, contents generally clean; spines a little sunned but overall in excellent condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom