A Collection of Letters of Thackeray: 1847-1855

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887.

Price: $25.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Introduction by Jane Octavia Brookfield. Small quarto. 189pp. Gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. Illustrated with portraits and reproductions of letters and drawings. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly, modest wear on the cloth at the spine ends, else near fine.

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Item #449342 A Collection of Letters of Thackeray: 1847-1855. William Makepeace THACKERAY.

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

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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