Titmarsh M a Pseudo Thackeray William Makepeace (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. TITMARSH, M. A. [pseudo. THACKERAY, William Makepeace]. Our Street. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the original pictorial covers preserved and bound in at the rear. Square 12mo; 54, [2] pp., including the final advertisement leaf. Illustrated by the author with a hand-colored vignette title page and fifteen hand-colored plates, including the frontispiece, sixteen hand-colored illustrations in total. Bound in full red crushed levant morocco by Rivière, with gilt lettering to spine, and wide gilt dentelles to the inner borders of both boards. Top edge gilt; remaining edges uncut. Navy blue glazed endpapers. An old auction catalogue slip, numbered 883, is affixed to a preliminary blank and identifies the copy as the First Issue, bound by Rivière with the original pictorial covers preserved. An armorial ownership label bears the motto "Meliora Sequimur." The second of Thackeray's Christmas books, published under his pseudonym Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. Through a series of illustrated sketches, Titmarsh introduces the residents of a London neighborhood being transformed by fashionable development. Landladies, artists, servants, and socially ambitious neighbors furnish an affectionate but pointed satire of gossip, pretension, and the pursuit of respectability. Contents generally clean and unmarked, with scattered foxing, primarily to the preliminaries, and light, even toning; pencil notation on a preliminary blank, above the auction catalogue slip. Leather rubbed and cracked along both outer joints, with some tenderness. Small chip with loss at the foot of the spine, not affecting lettering, and a faint stain to the lower portion of the front board. Gilt remains bright. A Good+ copy overall of this First Issue, with a well-preserved Very Good interior of plates, text, and original pictorial covers. Reference: Van Duzer 157. [Attributes: First Edition; First Issue; Illustrated; Hard Cover; Original Covers Bound In.]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. TITMARSH, M. A. [pseudo. THACKERAY, William Makepeace]. Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance Upon Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. FIRST EDITION. Small octavo. viii, 102 pp.; [2] publisher's advertisement leaf. Original pale mauve pictorial glazed boards, with yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Illustrated by Richard Doyle with eight full-page hand-colored plates, including the frontispiece, together with an uncolored vignette title page and woodcut illustrations in the text. Housed in a salmon-colored slipcase. One of Thackeray's six Christmas books, Rebecca and Rowena is a humorous sequel to Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Beginning where Scott's romance ends, Thackeray imagines an unhappy marriage between Ivanhoe and Rowena and revisits the hero's attachment to Rebecca. The story playfully challenges the conventional romantic ending while satirizing chivalric heroism and the Victorian fascination with medieval life. Richard Doyle's lively illustrations complement the burlesque. Contents generally clean and unmarked. Colored plates remain bright. Binding is square and holding, with weakened hinges. Boards faded and extensively rubbed; backstrip chipped at the head, with approx. ⅜ inch of loss. Slipcase in Near Fine condition. A Good Plus First Edition in the original pictorial boards. Reference: Van Duzer 181. [Attributes: First Edition; Illustrated; Hard Cover.]. DOYLE, Richard (1824-1883) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. THACKERAY, William Makepeace [Mr. M. A. Titmarsh]. Mrs. Perkins's Ball. London: Chapman and Hall, 1847. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with 22 hand-colored plates by the author, including the frontispiece, vignette title page, and one folding plate. Octavo. [6], 46, [2] pp. Three-quarter red calf over green holly-patterned paper-covered boards. Spine with four raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling, and a black title block lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Advertisement leaf lists other works by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, with the printer's colophon on the verso. Mrs. Perkins's Ball is one of Thackeray's Christmas books, written and illustrated by the author and published under his pseudonym, Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. The narrative presents a comic portrait of a fashionable London evening party. Titmarsh attends the gathering accompanied by the boisterous Mulligan of Ballymulligan, whose behavior unsettles the company. Through a succession of sharply observed character sketches and his own illustrations, Thackeray gently satirizes social ambition, pretension, and the awkward rituals of polite society. Contents generally clean and unmarked, with occasional light spotting and handling marks. Plates remain bright. Previous owner's name stamp in cursive on the front free endpaper and verso of the frontispiece. Folding plate repaired along the fold, some creasing. Binding is sound and square. Boards with scattered marks, wear to the edges and corners. A Very Good Minus copy of this First Edition hand-colored Christmas book. References: Van Duzer 140; Wolff 6695. [Attributes: First Edition; Illustrated; Hard Cover.]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863) (illustrator).…