The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1869, 1886.
Price: $2,250.00
Hardcover. First collected edition. Twenty-two volumes with two additional, uniform 1886 volumes, *Miscellaneous Essays* and *Contributions to Punch*, making 24 volumes in total. Very good in three-quarter blue leather with marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt, leather has a few scattered scuffs at the spine ends and on some of the raised bands, light wear at the corners; Volume One has some glue residue on the front endpaper. A nice set.
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William Makepeace Thackeray
birth name: William Makepeace Thackeray
born: 7/18/1811
died: 12/24/1863
Biography
English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847-48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and Henry Esmond, 3 vol. (1852), set in the early 18th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore