LEATHER Set;THACKERAY FIRST EDITION/PRINTING! 1854

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THE NEWCOMES: MEMOIRS OF A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY! Complete in 2 volumes. The rare FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING. FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING of this Novel By William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray was second only to Charles Dickens in popularity. Printed in 1854. ____The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1854 and 1855. The main part of The Newcomes is set a decade or two after the action of Vanity Fair , and some of the characters in Vanity Fair are mentioned peripherally in The Newcomes . Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then â Â" almost a miniature education in the Victorian era. Thackeray mentions poets, painters, novelists (some of the characters are reading Oliver Twist), politics, and other people, events and things both familiar and obscure to the 21st-century reader â Â" and does so in a natural way that enhances the story. There are also plenty of Latin, French language, and even Italian language and ancient-Greek phrases â Â" all untranslated. The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis. With illustrations on steel and wood by Richard Doyle. In two volumes. Bradbury and Evans, London, 1854-55. FIRST EDITION. True first edition in period leather binding, bound from the parts. Hinges sound with no starting. Very good overall. Some foxing. No previous owner's names. 8 3/4 inches. This is a very nice copy of the true first edition of a major nineteenth century novel. #1323o. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22.08.03.thacker

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