1854-1855 The Newcomes

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition in book form, with volume I published in 1854, and volume II in 1855. The work was also published serially in 23 parts between 1854 and 1856. 

Thackeray's novel chronicles the affairs of a family of merchants, bankers, and petty aristocrats.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume, alongside a further forty-four plates, and further vignette illustrations by Richard Doyle. Collated, complete.

Edited by 'Arthur Pendennis,' the protagonist in another novel by Thackeray, Pendennis, who is also the narrator to this story. 

With the bookplate of Joseph Martyn to each front pastedown, and the bookplate of D.B. Anderson to the front free endpaper of volume I. Former owner's inscriptions to title page heads.

In critical commentary The Newcomes has been regarded as a useful source to understand Victorian culture, with Thackeray mentioning several poets, painters, novelists and events of the time.