Burlesques, Yellowplush Papers, Etc.

New York: Dumont, c. 1940.

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. Reader's ed. Very good hardcover. Illustrated reader's edition. Illustrated with reproductions from the original Thackeray drawings. Pages light brown, clean text. Small stain on bottom, outer edges of pages. Spine brown. Green cloth cover. Top edges of pages have gold gilt.

Item #170072

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William Makepeace Thackeray
birth name: William Makepeace Thackeray
born: 7/18/1811
died: 12/24/1863

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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