1863 Roundabout Papers

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The very scarce first US edition, published in the same year as the first UK edition, of William Makepeace Thackery's publication of a large number of the columns he contributed to the monthly Cornhill Magazine, of which he became editor in 1860. 

With a frontispiece and numerous full plate and vignette illustrations from the author himself.

Including the essays 'On a Lazy Idle Boy', 'Tunbridge Toys', 'On a Hundred Years Hence', 'A Mississippi Bubble', and more.

He greatly enjoyed writing these column's expressing a preference for his role as columnist over editor

With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.