1898-1899 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

A biographical edition of this pleasing collection of works. Complete in thirteen volumes.

Uniformly bound in signed half calf binding by Riviere & Son.

From notable English writer and illustrator, William Makepeace Thackeray. He is best known for satirical works, particularly his novel titled ‘Vanity Fair’ which offers a panoramic portrait of British society and 'The Luck of Barry Lyndon' which was adapted into a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick. 

Featuring biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie. She also wrote several appreciated novels which made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene.

As well as plates, there are numerous illustrations throughout the text of each volume, including those illustrated by Thackeray.

The entirety of the set comprises:

Volume I - Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. With a portrait frontispiece of Thackeray and twenty-one plates. 

Volume II - The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. With a frontispiece and nineteen plates. 

Volume III - The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Cox's Diary etc. etc. With a frontispiece and twenty-four plates. 

Volume IV - The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon etc. With a frontispiece and fifteen plates.

Volume V - Sketch Books: The Paris Sketch Book, Irish Sketch Book, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo etc. etc. With a frontispiece and sixteen plates.

Volume VI - Contributions to "Punch" etc. With a frontispiece and seven full plates as well as twelve caricatures. 

Volume VII - The History of Henry Esmond Written by Himself: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century etc. With a frontispiece and nineteen plates.  

Volume VIII - The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by Arthur Pendennis. With a frontispiece and twenty plates. 

Volume IX - The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh etc. With a frontispiece and ninety-two plates, including a folding facsimile letter from Thackeray.  

Volume X - The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. With a frontispiece and twenty plates. 

Volume XI - The Adventures of Philip On His Way Through the World. With a frontispiece and twenty-one plates.

Volume XII - The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel, The Widower, Roundabout Papers and Denis Duval. With a frontispiece and twenty-one plates. 

Volume XIII - Ballads, Critical Reviews, Tales, Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, Etc. With a frontispiece and fifteen plates.

Collated, complete.