Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

Publication

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sangorski & Sutcliffe. bnd (Spencer Coll. copy)
• Duyckinck Collection.

Description

xvi, 624 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Vanity Fair : pen and pencil sketches of English society

Subject

• Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815 > Fiction
• British > Europe > Fiction
• Female friendship > Fiction
• Social classes > Great Britain > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Mosaic bindings (Binding) – Great Britain – 20th century.
• Cosway bindings (Binding).

Note

• Title page also occurs with statement of responsibility as "... with illustrations on wood and steel by the author" and publisher name as "Bradbury & Evans." For this and other variants known to occur in the parts issue, cf. article by D.A. Randall in The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 42 (1948), p. 95-109; article by P.L. Shillingsburg in Studies in bibliography, v. 34 (1981), p. 118-145.
• Added engraved t.p.
• Originally issued in 20 monthly pts. in 19 (the last a double no.), Jan. 1847-July 1848. Title page and other prelims. in pt. 19/20.
• Publisher statement on covers of pts. 1-18: "London: Published at the Punch office ... J. Menzies, Edinburgh; J. M'Leod, Glasgow; J. M'Glashan, Dublin, 1847[-1848]" (pts. 1-18). In pt. 19/20, "Thos. Murray" or "T. Murray" replaces "J. M'Leod"; date sometimes wanting. Cf. Randall.
• Illustrations: 40 prints (incl. added t.p.) : etching ; full-page. -- 150 prints : wood engraving ; various sizes. -- 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. "Vanity Fair advertiser" and/or additional publisher's and general advertisements inserted in most pts. For detailed account, cf. Van Duzer; Randall.

Indexed In (note)

• Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray

Source (note)

• Lenox Library copy.
• Gift from unknown donor

Provenance (note)

• With bookplate of E. Fitzgerald (designed by Thackeray), and with another copy of the bookplate mounted on an inserted leaf with ms. notes by Fitzgerald. With A.L.S. of W.T.D. Ritchie laid in.

Binding (note)

• Brown morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford. Presumably bound from the original parts, with covers to Parts II-IV and various advertisements bound at end.
• Dark red morocco, gilt, with floral design incorporating black morocco inlays, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London (signed on front turn-in). Red and dark blue morocco doublures, gilt; floral design in dark blue central panels incorporating dark red and dark green morocco inlays. Dark blue watered silk endleaves. "Cosway style" binding, with glazed oval miniature port. of Thackeray inset inside front cover. Original dark green blind-embossed cloth from publisher's binding bound in.

Call Number

*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Vanity fair)

LCCN

08017685

OCLC

4345853

Author

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

Title

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

Imprint

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

Indexed In:

Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray, 230

Binding

Copy in *KL: Brown morocco, gilt, by F. Bedford. Presumably bound from the original parts, with covers to Parts II-IV and various advertisements bound at end.

Spencer Coll. copy: Dark red morocco, gilt, with floral design incorporating black morocco inlays, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London (signed on front turn-in). Red and dark blue morocco doublures, gilt; floral design in dark blue central panels incorporating dark red and dark green morocco inlays. Dark blue watered silk endleaves. "Cosway style" binding, with glazed oval miniature port. of Thackeray inset inside front cover. Original dark green blind-embossed cloth from publisher's binding bound in.

Provenance

Copy in *KL: With bookplate of E. Fitzgerald (designed by Thackeray), and with another copy of the bookplate mounted on an inserted leaf with ms. notes by Fitzgerald. With A.L.S. of W.T.D. Ritchie laid in.

Local Note

Copy in 8-*KL: With some variant readings. Front cover to Part 18 bound in. Duyckinck Collection.

Source

Lenox Library copy. (8-*KLcopy)

Gift from unknown donor (Spencer Coll. copy)

Connect to:

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Added Author

Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883. Binder (copy in *KL)

Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Binder (Spencer Coll. copy)

Duyckinck Collection.

Research Call Number

*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Vanity fair)

8-*KL (Thackeray, W. M. Vanity fair)

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1848 11-89