A Collection of Letters of Thackeray 1847-1855; With Portraits and Reproductions of Letters and Drawings

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1887

Beschreibung

8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2, [3], 6-189, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, top edge gilt, including a gilt facsimile of W.M. Thackeray's closing for his letters. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several pencil and pen drawings reproduced from Thackeray's collection, and steel lithograph portrait plates of the author himself and places important to Thackeray's life. First American edition which Van Duzer indicates was published simultaneously with the first English edition. Thackeray's letters to Mrs. Brookfield originally appeared in Scribner's magazine. Van Duzer 32. A lovely copy of Thackeray's letters and drawings. A Near Fine book with an old bookseller's tag on the free front endpaper (Clarke and Carruth of Boston). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00007882

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Collection of Letters of Thackeray 1847-...

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1887

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: First American edition.