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THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
by THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Nearly Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1869. TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES uniformly bound. Signed bindings by ZAEHNSDORF. Marbled boards and matching endpapers. The first 22 books are dated 1869, the final 2 are dated 1886. Spines are decorated with intricate gilt designs, black leather label. Top edges gilt. Front joint of Volume 1 is a bit weak, but remains attached. All other volumes are tight. Several volumes with very minor wear at spine extremities. Full-page illustrated plates and text illustrations by the author, Richard Doyle, and others. All-in-all, quite a lovely set, finely-bound by a well-respected bindery. Cited in CBEL lll, p.429. Postage will be extra for this large set. . Collected Edition. 3/4 Buttercalf Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Demy Octavo.
Synopsis
A prolific writer, made most famous by his writing Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeraywas considered second only to Dickens when he was alive. A witty satirist, he mocked the Victorian era with a light hand and good humor: "O house, you are inhabited—0 knocker, you are knocked at—O undressed flunkey, sunning your lazy calves as you lean against the iron railings, you are paid—by Snobs."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013844
- Title
- THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
- Author
- THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Collected Edition
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1869
- Size
- Demy Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sets, Fine Binding, Zaehnsdorf
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Marbled boards
- ...
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