The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, A Series of Lectures
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.
Price: $25.00
Hardcover. First American edition. Good with wear and short tears at the spine ends, corners worn through, boards are soiled, pages foxed.
Item #330214
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