titmarsh pseudonym william makepeace thackeray (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday sale item)* first French edition; [1] (half-title), 62 pp., removed from a larger binding, text block only, scant light foxing, else internally clean & tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xii] 415 printed pages of text with many monochrome illustrations by the author throughout. First published in 1843 describing Ireland. L-shaped piece of cloth missing to the top of the spine, rubs across the bottom of the spine which is slightly age darkened, old ink name inside, the contents being in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1851. Square 8vo. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled edges; pp. [iv], 87, title with tinted lithographic vignette, tinted lithographic frontispiece and 13 tinted lithographic plates, all by Thackeray; light wear to extremities, spine a little sunned and with hinges weakened at head; internally, apart from very light marginal toning a clean and fresh copy; provenance: contemporary Glasgow bookseller's label inside front cover, contemporary engraved armorial bookplate C. J. Tennant Dunlop underneath.Second edition of a delightful social satire about the English travelling to and along the Rhine. The critic for The Times launched a rather strongly worded attack on this book in his 1850 review, criticising the author's motives in writing for profit (a charge Thackeray happily accepted) and for presenting rather unsavoury characters. Ironically the first edition sold out on review day and this second edition was hastily arranged by the publishers.