A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Vanity Fair, accompanied by a letter <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by the author, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Makepeace%20Thackeray&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Makepeace Thackeray</a>.<ul><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (English).</li><li>Vanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bradbury and Evans,&nbsp;1848.</li><li>With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>xvi, 624, [1] pages.</li><li>Mixed issue: with the title on page 1 in rustic type, "Mr. Mott" for "Sir Pitt" on page 453, but lacking the suppressed woodcut on page 336.&nbsp;</li><li>Autograph Letter, signed, inserted at front.</li><li>Full red crushed red levant with gilt borders, spine and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, by Bayntun Riviere.</li></ul> The letter, on a folded octavo sheet, is undated, and likely written to Percival Leigh, the humorist who wrote for Punch, and who was an intimate of Thackeray. The full text reads: Clarendon, SundayDear Mr. LeighI hope the clerk at the bar told you that I was prevented from coming home by illness last night. Will you call here the first morning you are free? About 9 will to the best time &amp; I'll see you well or ill.Faithfully yoursWM Thackeray.

Vanity Fair First Edition

A finely bound, first edition copy of Vanity Fair, with a miniature portrait cover.<ul><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (English).</li><li>Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero.</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>624 pages.</li><li>With an engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 38 engraved plates, and numerous engravings on steel and textual wood illustrations by the author.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, with oval Cosway-style portrait on the upper cover, all edges gilt, by Aspreys.</li></ul>

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