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The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family

Title: The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family / edited by A. Pendennis, Esq. ; with illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle.
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Publication: London : Bradbury and Evans, 1854-1855.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	pts. 13-24	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Newcomes 1854) 06-97 pts. 13-24	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	pts. 1-12	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Newcomes 1854) 06-97 pts. 1-12	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	8-*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

2 v. (viii, 380 p., [23] leaves of plates; viii, 375 p., [23] leaves of plates) : ill.; 23 cm.

Note

Added engraved title pages.
Originally issued in 24 monthly pts. in 23 (the last a double no.), Oct 1853-Aug. 1855. Title page and other prelims. to v. 1 in pt. 12; to v. 2 in pt. 23/24.
Illustrations: 48 prints : etching ; full-page. -- Numerous wood engravings of various sizes throughout the text; additional wood-engraved ill. on covers of parts.
Parts issue: Each pt. (no.) in illustrated yellow paper covers. Publisher's and general advertisements on p. [2-4] of covers. "The Newcomes advertiser" (4-16 p.), no. 1-23/24, dated Oct. 1853-Aug. 1855, inserted in pts. 1-23/24. Additional publisher's and general advertisements inserted in pts. 1-7, 9-11, 13-23/24. For details, cf. Van Duzer.

Indexed In (note)

Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray

Provenance (note)

Lenox Library copy

Call Number

*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes)

LCCN

70011426 //r93

OCLC

66009

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

Title

The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family / edited by A. Pendennis, Esq. ; with illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle.

Imprint

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1854-1855.

Indexed In:

Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray, 147

Provenance

Lenox Library copy *KL copy 1

Local Note

Copy 1 in *KL: Half titles wanting. Bound in half brown calf and marbled boards. Duyckinck Collection.

Copy 2 in *KL: Parts issue.

Copy in 8-*KL: Parts issue. Binding: Dark red crushed levant morocco, gilt, with red silk endpapers, by W. Root & Son, binders, London. Original covers and advertisements bound in at end of each volume. Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness.

Arents copy: Parts issue.

Arents copy: Laid in v. 1: Thackeray, William Makepeace. ALS : [London] to Mrs. Russell Sturgis [Julia Overing Boit Sturgis], [ca. 1855]. 1 p. ; 20 cm. In verse; requesting that Mrs. Sturgis come to dinner even if Mr. Sturgis cannot because he is "asleep over Newcome." Includes a pen and ink drawing by Thackeray showing a man asleep in a chair holding "The Newcomes." Signed: Doubleyou Em Tee. Accompanied by typescript transcript.

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Added Author

Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883. Illustrator

Sturgis, Julia Overing Boit, correspondent.

Duyckinck Collection.

Research Call Number

*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes) Copy 1

8-*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Newcomes)

Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Newcomes 1854) 06-97

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