Thackeray Ritchie Anne Ritchie Hester Editor (2 results)

1st edn. 8vo. Original cloth-backed grey paper-laid boards with printed spine label (boards lightly marked and bumped at corners - otherwise VG). Pp. viii + 314, illus with b&w plates (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. viii, [ii], 314. 4pp. undated advertisements. Portrait frontispiece of Anne Thackeray Ritchie from a drawing by John Singer Sargent and four full-page illustrations. Further illustrations in the text. Original publisher's grey cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine. Preface by Hester Ritchie. Signed presentation copy: 'For my mother's dearest E. P. from Hester Ritchie March 5th 1924'. E. P. refers to Elizabeth Merivale née Pittman. Her husband, the poet and dramatist, Herman Merivale (1839 1906), moved in literary circles, and was friends with William Makepeace Thackeray. Loosely inserted 'The Cornhill Magazine. November 1919'. pp. 359-468. An article concerning Anne Isabella Thackeray (Lady Ritchie) by Howard Overing Sturgis. Slightly nicked at head and foot of spine, light wear to boards. VG. Light wear and slight rubbing otherwise very good.…