THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph manuscript, a fragment from his article "George I" (first published in the Cornhill Magazine in July 1860, then part of the book The Four Georges , New York, 1860), n.p., n.d. [probably London 1860], 1 page, square 8vo, about 300 words in ink in Thackeray's vertical hand, a few deletions, two small tears at left edge ; Autograph manuscript, a fragment from an unidentified humourous piece dealing with Parliament (and its dull oratory), n.p., n.d., 1 page, 8vo, about 285 words in ink (mainly) and pencil in his vertical hand, the pencil portion deleted, one other revision, a slight fold tear, tipped at a corner to stiff paper , inscribed on verso from Thackeray's daughter Anne Thackeray Ritchie to R. Bowker in 1895; Pen-and-ink drawing showing a top-hatted gentleman knocking at the front door of a town house while nearly crushed by a mail bag labelled "Penny Post," n.p., n.d., 116 x 102mm., 4 1/2 x 4in., lightly and evenly faded. (3)
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Autograph manuscript, a fragment from his article "George I" (first published in the Cornhill Magazine in July 1860, then part of the book The Four Georges , New York, 1860), n.p., n.d. [probably London 1860], 1 page, square 8vo, about 300 words in ink in Thackeray's vertical hand, a few deletions, two small tears at left edge ; Autograph manuscript, a fragment from an unidentified humourous piece dealing with Parliament (and its dull oratory), n.p., n.d., 1 page, 8vo, about 285 words in ink (mainly) and pencil in his vertical hand, the pencil portion deleted, one other revision, a slight fold tear, tipped at a corner to stiff paper , inscribed on verso from Thackeray's daughter Anne Thackeray Ritchie to R. Bowker in 1895; Pen-and-ink drawing showing a top-hatted gentleman knocking at the front door of a town house while nearly crushed by a mail bag labelled "Penny Post," n.p., n.d., 116 x 102mm., 4 1/2 x 4in., lightly and evenly faded. (3)
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