5/30/2023 0 Comments Vanity fair novel without a heroThe frontispiece is a fine photogravure portrait of Thackeray, printed in a soft sepia tone. The spine has no number denoted, but notes instead : Biographical Edition. As we pointed out above, this is Volume One only of the set. It's a handsome, large and somewhat heavy book, with a handsome decorated blue cloth covered board binding, with gilt top edge. This is a previously owned book, having the inked signature of the original owner on the front paste-down : Isabel Bailey Cook. It remains one of the great satirical masterpieces of English Literature. This particular edition is delicious for the inclusion of Thackeray's original illustrations for the story, which help bring to visual life the many different characters found in the novel. It is Volume One, only of the Biographical Edition of the "works of William Makepeace Thackeray", which was issued in 13 volumes. Here is "Vanity Fair, A Novel Without a hero" by William Makepeace Thackeray.
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