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1849 Doctor Birch and His Young Friends
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition of this work, in the uncommon publisher's original pictorial covered boards.
The work of M. A. Titmarsh, a pseudonym of famed Victorian era author William Makepeace Thackeray.
Illustrated with a hand coloured frontispiece and title page, and fourteen further hand coloured plates. Collated, complete.
These illustrations are the work of the author.
With an advertisement leaf to the rear.
A charming festive novella from the author of 'Vanity Fair' and 'The Luck of Barry Lyndon'.
Condition
In the publisher's original pictorial covered boards. Bumping to board perimeters and back strip head and tail, with loss of paper to back strip. Major handling marks to rear board, with losses of paper to fore edge of board. Further handling marks and rubbing to front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright. Spotting throughout, to each page.
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