HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Men's Wives, The Book of Snobs, Mrs. Perkin's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring, Ballads, The.
by Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863
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About This Item
Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Co. (Beewick & Smith), 1887. Illustrated by 214 drawings in text by the author, Richard Doyle, Mrs. Butler, George Du Maurier, John Collier, H. Furniss, G.G. Kilburne, M. Fitzgerald, J.P. Atkinson and W.J. Webb. Reprint edition. c.1849 London, c.1869 Tauchnitz and Smith, Elder, c.1887 Worthington Co., NY (with 118 illustrations). Olive silk, decorated black, printed gilt and black. Cr.8vo. pp. x, 518 (History of Samuel Titmarsh through The Book of Snobs, [2], 356 (Mrs. Perkins's Ball through Ballads). Good+/No jacket, as issued. Cap and corner wear, bumps to topedge resulting in tiny tears/chips from pp. 51-94 first page number and pp 81-104 of second page numbering (non affecting text), light toning, foxed and offset stains to title page, some illustration offset. Mock dos-o-dos and unusual collection of Thackeray's Works issued by the famous department store established in 1851 (probably for a holiday season play on words; Titmarsh vs. Jordan March) ..
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- HISTORY OF SAMUEL TITMARSH and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Men's Wives, The Book of Snobs, Mrs. Perkin's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring, Ballads, The.
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace 1811-1863
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Co. (Beewick & Smith), 1887.
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OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)
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