Half-title: The centenary biographical edition. In the present edition each volume has special t.-p.: v. 1, 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 16, 17 have also reproductions of the vignette title-pages of the original edition (published in parts, 1847-56) and v. 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16 have reproductions of original covers. Reprint of the 1910-11 ed. The illustrations are from drawings by the author, George Cruikshank, Richard Doyle, J. E. Millais, G. Du Maurier, Frederick Walker, and others. The colored frontispieces (v. 1, 3, 10, 16) are by Howard Pyle.
Contents:
1-2. Vanity fair.--3-4. History of Pendennis.--5. Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. Men's wives, Character sketches, and Flore et Zephyr.--6. History of Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Adventures of Major Gahagan and Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo.--7. Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, esq., written by himself, and The fatal boots.--8-9. Contributions to Punch.--10. History of Henry Esmond, esq.--11. Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century. Four Georges and Charity and humour.--12-13. The Newcomes.--14. Christmas books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh.--15. Ballads and The rose and the ring.--16-17. The Virginians.--18-19. Adventures of Philip.--20. Roundabout papers (from the Cornhill magazine), to which is added The second funeral of Napoleon.--21. Denis Duval. Lovel the widower. The wolves and the lamb.--22. Paris sketch book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh and Little-travels and road-side sketches.--23. Irish sketch book and Critical reviews.--24. Catherine. The Fitzboodle papers. Cox's diary. The Bedford-Row conspiracy and A legend of the Rhine.--25. Knights of Borsellen, etc.--26. Miscellanies.
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23003033
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
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