Book Description

Second edition, a few months after the first, and with a new preface by the author -- 'I hope that in its present and cheaper form, my little volume may be found welcome to those of another class, who were deterred hitherto, perhaps by the price, from reading it ...'. Bound by R. de Coverly with stamp (Packer p.44).
Author THACKERAY (W.M.)
Date 1846
Binding well bound in late 19th century dark turquoise morocco, gilt panel of floral tools on sides, spine richly gilt decorated and lettered in compartments, gilt top,
Publisher Chapman and Hall,
Illustrator With hand coloured frontispiece, vignette on title and a woodcut in text by the author,
Condition binding trifle rubbed but a pretty copy.
Pages sm. 8vo, pp.11 + 222,

Price: £125.00

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