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Author:

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095677

Title:

Vanity fair : a novel without a hero / by William Makepeace Thackeray ; with illustrations on wood and steel by the author.

Publisher:

Bradbury & Evans,

Copyright Date:

1848

Description:

xvi, 624 pages, 39 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815--Fiction.
British--Europe--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Sharp, Becky--(Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Etching, British--Specimens.
Wood-engraving--19th century--Specimens.
Fiction.

Other Authors:

Elsass, L, former owner. IaU
Gibbons, John, 1777-1851, former owner. IaU
Gibbons, E., former owner. IaU
Bradbury & Evans. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85042912

Notes:

Added etched and illustrated title page with date "1848." Originally issued in monthly numbers, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Illustrated with 39 etchings, 83 wood engraved vignettes, and 66 wood engraved initials after Thackeray. Library copy is first edition and has points of the earliest issue with the woodcut "Marquis of Steyne" on page 336 and the reading "Mr. Pitt" on page 453. IaU

Indexed by:

Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England, 122

OCLC:

(OCoLC)3174108

LCCN:

08017685

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)