The Oxford Thackeray with illustrations / edited, with introductions, by George Saintsbury. 9 Volumes
1858, 1st edition. London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Very good gilt-blocked, leather copies (9) with marbled end-papers. Edges and spines stained, nicked and rubbed as with age (with some tear). Some browning to the pages. One of the spines, volume 17's, torn but strong. Previous owner's bookplates remaining. Item #420472
*Publication date approximated. Physical description; 9 copies, 17 cm, facsimile illustrations (b&w). Contents:
Volume 1: The Yellowplush papers, and Early miscellanies.
Volume 5: The Irish sketch book, and Contributions to the Foreign quarterly review.
Volume 6: Barry Lyndon, and the Miscellaneous papers written between 1843 and 1847.
Volume 8: Miscellaneous contributions to Punch, 1843-1854.
Volume 9: A Legend of the Rhine, Cornhill to Cairo, and The book of snobs.
Volume 10: Christmas books, Rebecca and Rowena, and Later minor papers, 1849-1861.
Volume 13: Henry Edmond, The English humourists, and The four Georges.
Volume 15: The Virginians.
Volume 17: The wolves and the lamb, Lovel the widower, Denis Duval, and Roundabout papers.
Subjects; William Makepeace Thackeray. William Makepeace Thackeray fiction. Ballads, English. English ballads and songs. Saintsbury, George.
Price: €100.00