THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8 o. Contemporary tan half-calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, green morocco spine label (extremities slightly rubbed). Small hole in leaf OO 1 with the loss of a few words. Quarter-morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, A RARE PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed to Frederick Chapman, one of Thackeray's publishers on the blank recto of the advertisement leaf at front: "This is to certify that Mr. Frederick Chapman has been in the habit of taking in the numbers of the novel called Vanity Fair, a practice that he is enjoined to continue with the other works of his humble serv't W M Thackeray." Van Duzer 230. Grolier, English 87. Provenance: Bookplate of Frederick Chapman. The E.H. Mills copy, bookplate. The Doris Louise Benz copy, bookplate. Thackeray presentations, particulary with such notable association, are very scarce.
THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8 o. Contemporary tan half-calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, green morocco spine label (extremities slightly rubbed). Small hole in leaf OO 1 with the loss of a few words. Quarter-morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, A RARE PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed to Frederick Chapman, one of Thackeray's publishers on the blank recto of the advertisement leaf at front: "This is to certify that Mr. Frederick Chapman has been in the habit of taking in the numbers of the novel called Vanity Fair, a practice that he is enjoined to continue with the other works of his humble serv't W M Thackeray." Van Duzer 230. Grolier, English 87. Provenance: Bookplate of Frederick Chapman. The E.H. Mills copy, bookplate. The Doris Louise Benz copy, bookplate. Thackeray presentations, particulary with such notable association, are very scarce.
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