William Thackeray Anne Ritchie (65 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Thackeray (illustrator). Here is "Vanity Fair, A Novel Without a hero" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It is Volume One, only of the Biographical Edition of the "works of William Makepeace Thackeray", which was issued in 13 volumes . This particular edition is delicious for the inclusion of Thackeray's original illustrations for the story, which help bring to visual life the many different characters found in the novel. It remains one of the great satirical masterpieces of English Literature. This is a previously owned book, having the inked signature of the original owner on the front paste-down : Isabel Bailey Cook. It's a handsome, large and somewhat heavy book, with a handsome decorated blue cloth covered board binding, with gilt top edge. As we pointed out above, this is Volume One only of the set. The spine has no number denoted, but notes instead : Biographical Edition. The frontispiece is a fine photogravure portrait of Thackeray, printed in a soft sepia tone. SERIES : The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Biographical Edition VOLUME : Volume One only TITLE : Vanity Fair : a Novel Without a Hero AUTHOR : William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 -1863) INTRODUCTION : Anne Ritchie (Thackeray's daughter) ILLUSTRATOR : Thackeray himself IMPRINT : Harper & Brothers PLACE : New York DATE : İ 1898 , and no date of publication given - but [1905] as per the 1905 "Publisher's Trade Annual" EDITION : American Reprint STATUS : This Edition OP DETAILS : Trade hardcover - a single volume from a set; has a frontispiece sepia photogravure portrait of Thackeray; contains thirty one illustrations by Thackeray, including 10 within the Biographical Introduction - most of these having not much to do with the novel. The Introduction was written by Thackeray's daughter, Anne Ritchie; [xl] + 676 pages; approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8'; decorated cloth-covered boards and spine, with gilt lettering on spine. The boards have been given a densely repeating motif of the letter 'T' alternating with a flower - front and back; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom edge are rough cut. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR - Spine extremities are compressed and display slight fraying as well as a touch of abrasion; joints are mildly rubbed; front board has only mild rub, and displays nicely; rear board has some scuff marks, else is clean; board bottom edges display shelf rub; top edge gilt displays rub and a touch of scuffing; fore- and bottom text-block edges are toned, else clean. BINDING - Solid INTERIOR - There are likely a few minute smudges and/or smudges - but nothing that is obvious to perusal; end-papers are lightly toned; the original owner's inked signature is written on the front paste-down (Isabel Bailey Cook).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. TITLE : Littell's Living Age / ISSUE : Vol. IV, Fifth Series; From Beginning : Vol. CXIX, No. 1533 / DATE : October 25, 1873 / IMPRINT : Littell and Gay / PLACE : No. 17 Bromfield St., Boston / PROVENANCE : From the personal library of Rev. E. P. Powell. Once shelved in the personal collection of Reverend E. P. Powell (Edward Payson Powell, 1833 - 1915), graduate of Hamilton College and Union Theological Seminary. He was a Congregationalist minister, an author of books and an editorial journalist of prolific production. Powell worked in the service of Abolition and civil rights. He was a resident of Clinton N.Y. and Utica N.Y. Powell was a voracious subscriber to periodicals of intellectual nature. He has not signed this item, but a subscription mailing label is affixed to the front cover. / DETAILS : Weekly Periodical; pages [193] - 236 (44 pp); approx. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" ; pictorial wraps, sewn. (Advertisement for St. Nicholas Magazine on rear exterior *********************************************** In 1844 Eliakim Littell started publishing "Littell's Living age", a weekly literary journal. Mostly it was excerpts from works - both magazine and books - published elsewhere. At times correspondents purported to share material, and sometimes there were bits and snatches of literary news. Trying to place this periodical in the scheme of things, I guess I would say it was a distant forerunner of periodicals like "The Reader's Digest", only with a higher literary pretension. *********************************************** Just peruse the table of contents for this issue to understand the nature of this antique periodical :: ~ THE PROTESTANT RESTORATION IN FRANCE IN THE LAST CENTURY -- (from "Fraser's Magazine" ) // ~ JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, PART 1 -- by Miss Thackeray -- (from "Cornhill Magazine" ) Miss Thackeray (Lady Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, 1837 - 1919) was the eldest daughter of English novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray. She was an esteemed writer in her own right, penning novels, essays, and social criticism. She had a good knack for taking old folk-tales -such as this "Jack and the Beanstalk" , and revising them to reflect conditions in her time. Thus in this story Jack is a tenant farmer struggling against the greed of his landlord (the Giant). Presented here is Part One of the story. // ~ TURKISH GEORGIA (From "Cornhill Magazine" ) The author of this piece of reportage was identified in "Cornhill Magazine" as W.G.P. This was William Gifford Palgrave (1826 - 1888). In 1862 Palgrave had traveled through the interior of Arabia, which at that time was totally unknown (Terra Incognito) to the Western World. He was fluent in colloquial Arabic, and thus disguised as a Syrian physician he made his way with a small supply of medicines and the sort into the heart of Najd, where he became friends with Faisla bin Turki, the then ruler of Najd. It was a danger -filled journey, Palgrave almost didn't make it out - but he did, and wrote a book about his adventures. In this essay about Georgia, he meant to correct the sad, and somewhat thoughtless, dismissal of that country by historian Gibbons. // ~ THE REGENT ORLEANS AND HIS AGE ( from "Temple Bar" ) - by the Author of "Mirabeau" This is an essay of which the style could stand in the King of Purple Prose // ~ NICOLE VAGNON - PART 1 - (from "Temple Bar") - A Story by Katharine Sarah Macquoid (Novelist, 1824 - 1917) Her most famous novel was Patty . She also wrote travel books which were illustrated by her husband, Thomas Robert Macquoid. // ~ THE OLD CATHOLIC CONGRESS AT CONSTANCE -- (from "The Saturday Review" ) // ~ THE LESSONS OF THE AMERICAN MONETARY CRISIS (from The Economist ) // ~ VICTOR EMANUEL'S RECEPTION IN VIENNA AND BERLIN (from "The Spectator" ) // ~ POETRY : An Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy; Gathered Ferns by H.J.L. ************************************************* CONDITION GOOD ONLY This is a previously owned periodical that remains clean and presentable.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The boards are lightly worn, with scuffing to corners and edges, sunned spine, light stain and soiling marks. No hinge cracks. No Inscriptions. The leaves are tight and in very good condition, with rough trimming to the fore and bottom edges. The pages are generally clean, with some showing light foxing spots. Spotting is more noticeable to the text block edges, with a little dirt and scratching to the gilt top. Measures 20.9 x 14.1 x 4.6cm. 751 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Fore edge foxed. Prelims lightly foxed. Ink inscription on title page. Clean throughout. Good. Book.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by By Author, Goerge Cruikshank and John Leech (illustrator). This Biographical Edition is a lovely edn, full of extras. This Edition of The Works was originally published in Thirteen Volumes. This is Volume 13 - Last volume in this set/edition of 13 Volumes. Red cloth covered boards, sl. faded spine, bright gilt titling to spine and bright gilt lettering to front board, 6 small black spots to rear board, mottling/fading to covers. Hinges sound.NO INSCRIPTIONS. 751pp. Foxing to page edges and to endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. Black and white tissue guarded frontispiece. Internally CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Contents include; ballads - FAIRY DAYS, PEG OF LIMAVADDY; A DOE IN THE CITY; Love songs made easy - THE MINARET BELLS; SERENADE; MY NORA; five German Ditties; Four Imitations of Beranger; Imitation of Horace etc etc. Uniform with my listings of Vols 7, 9, and 12 in this set.; 107517; 8vo.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrations Throughout (illustrator). Reprint. Xlviii, 752 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. Light Wear. 1900 Date On Title Page. Vol Ii Of The Biographical Edition Of The Works In 13 Volumes. Ownership Signature "Fanny Weston Bixby / November 1903 / Los Angeles". Fanny Weston Bixby [Spencer] (1879 - 1930) Was The Youngest Of Nine Surviving Children Of Jotham Bixby; He Had Arrived In California In 1852 From Maine, Where He And Several Cousins Had Formed Flint, Bixby & Company, Which Acquired Major Landholdings, Including The 27,000-Acre Rancho Los Cerritos In What Is Now Long Beach. Fanny Grew Up Wealthy, And Although She Was An Active Philanthropist, When She Died In 1930 Her $2.5 Million Estate Was The Largest Ever Probated In Orange County Up To That Point. Fanny Grew Up On Rancho Los Cerritos, Of Which Jotham Was The Manager. Later, Fanny's Grandfather, The Prominent Abolitionist And Unitarian Minister George Whitefield Hathaway, Came To Live With The Family. Fanny Bixby Wrote About His Abolitionist Activities, Including Turning His House Into A Station On The Underground Railroad, In Her Pamphlet Entitled How I Became A Socialist. Fanny Bixby Was Educated At The Marlborough School In Los Angeles And The Pomona Preparatory School. She Attended Wellesley College For Three Years But Left Without A Degree. At Wellesley, She Studied Sociology With Emily Greene Balch, Who Would Go On To Win The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize. While Still At Wellesley College, She Worked For A Time At The Denison Settlement House In Boston (Founded By Balch) And The Nurse's Settlement House In San Francisco. On Leaving College, She Moved Back To Long Beach, Where She Donated Money To Various Civic Causes, Including Long Beach's First Hospital (Seaside Hospital), And The Walt Whitman School (Private) And Her Settlement House, Both In The Boyle Heights District On The East-Side Of Los Angeles. She And Her Husband Often Invited Ghetto Youth Of Working Mothers To Stay On Their Farm In Orange County To Divert Them From Gangs And Delinquency. In 1907 She Founded What Is Now Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She Also Helped Found The Town Of Costa Mesa, California. When Long Beach Formed Its Police Force In 1908, Captain Tom Williams Brought Fanny Bixby Onto The Force Because Of Her Extensive Philanthropic Work In The City. She Was Sworn In As A Special Police Matron On January 1, 1908, Making Her One Of The First Women Police Officers In The Country. Fanny Bixby Worked With The Long Beach Police Force For Four Years. An Admirer Of Leo Tolstoy, Fanny Bixby Was A Socialist And A Pacifist. She Published Some Poetry In The California Socialist Party's Newspaper, The Oakland World, And She Attended At Least One Antiwar Meeting In Pasadena Before The Espionage Act Of 1917 Made It Risky To Speak Out Against The War. Her 1920 Play The Jazz Of Patriotism Was About A Woman Who Is Ostracized For Refusing To Salute The Flag. It Premiered At The Egan Theater (Later The Musart Theater) In Downtown Los Angeles. Fanny Bixby Met Her Future Husband, W. Carl Spencer, At A Socialist Party Meeting In 1917. They Moved To Costa Mesa (Then Named Harper) In 1919, Where They Raised Five Adopted Children And Supported Many Others. The Couple Donated Land To The City For A Park And A Library. A Couple Of Years Before She Died, She Wrote To Her Cousin Sarah Bixby Smith: "I Have Three Lines Of Work, Bringing Up My Foster Children, Helping My Neighbors (Mostly Japanese Farmers) And Banging My Head Against The Stone Wall Of Militarism And Conservatism That Hems Me In." Her Papers Are Housed At The Rancho Los Cerritos Museum.

Condition: Gut. Formateinband: Leinen mit Goldschnitt / gebundene Ausgabe IX, 189 S. (24 cm) 1st Edition; Außen teils berieben und etwas kratzspurig; Papier leicht gebräunt, Besitzvermerk auf Vorsatzblatt; sonst in gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300 [Stichwörter: Brief, Briefe, Briefwechsel, Korrespondenz, Briefsammlung].

Condition: New. Index 1st Cosmo Print.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Uncommon edition containing the letters and journals of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of William Makepeace Thackery, containing a great portrait of the thriving literary milieu of the moment, particularly of the place of a young woman within Victorian English society and literature. With detailed biographical commentary. Excellent overall condition hardcover in pictorical jacket. Binding is solid and strong. Boards are clean and firm in gray cloth. Dustjacket is very bright and attractive, with the only detriment being a small area where the silver gloss is scuffed away revealing the paper underneath on the front panel and a teeny puncture at back panel. Teeny closed tear and very light wear at the edges besides, and one very small scratch at the letter "m" in Burnham on the front. Now in brordart. Interior is spotless, bright, clean, appearing scarcely opened.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 190.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lg. 8vo. 1898-1899. Complete set of 13 vols. Publisher's vertical ribbed red cloth, gilt, teg, other edges uncut, many pages unopened. With over 500 illustrations by the Author, Richard Doyle, George Du Maurier, F Barnard, Frank Dicksee, George Cruikshank, Frederick Walker, Charles Keene and John Leech. Each volume has a detailed biographical introduction consisting of between 20 and 60 pages, with numerous illustrations, by his daughter Anne Ritchie. Light fading to spines, else a very attractive, clean set. Very heavy, extra postage will be required. Please ask for a quote before ordering.

Biographical Edition. Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; The biographical edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Physical description; 11 vols. : ill. ; 23 cm. Contents; v. II: The History of Pendennis ; v. III: The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush The Great Hoggarty Diamond etc. ect. ; v. IV: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The Fitz-Boodle Papers Men;s Wives etc. etc. ; v. V: Sketch Books: The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch Book, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo etc. etc. ; v. VI: Contributions to "Punch" etc. ; v. VII: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. and The Lectures ; v. IX: The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarch etc. ; v. X: The Virginians ; v. XI: The Adventures of Philip ; v. XII: The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel the Widower, Roundabout Papers, Denis Duval ; v. XIII: Ballads and Miscellanies. Subjects; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863). British Literature. 6 Kg.

Biographical Edition. Worn set bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; The biographical edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray. Physical description; 11 vols. : ill. ; 23 cm. Contents; v. II: The History of Pendennis ; v. III: The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush The Great Hoggarty Diamond etc. ect. ; v. IV: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The Fitz-Boodle Papers Men;s Wives etc. etc. ; v. V: Sketch Books: The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch Book, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo etc. etc. ; v. VI: Contributions to "Punch" etc. ; v. VII: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. and The Lectures ; v. IX: The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarch etc. ; v. X: The Virginians ; v. XI: The Adventures of Philip ; v. XII: The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel the Widower, Roundabout Papers, Denis Duval ; v. XIII: Ballads and Miscellanies. Subjects; Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863). British Literature. 6 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A set of the illustrated biographical edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray in thirteen volumes. Biographical edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete in thirteen volumes. Featuring biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie.William Makepeace Thackeray was a famous English novelist known for his satirical works such as Vanity Fair, portrait of British Society, andThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, later adapted for a Stanley Kubrick film.With half title and additional uniform title page.Illustrated with numerous illustrations in the text and further full page plates by Thackeray himself. Some illustrations are by George Cruikshank, J E Millais, Luke Fildes, et al.From the library of collectors Helen and Michael Oppenheimer, with their armorial bookplate to front pastedowns.Comprising the following titles:1898 Vanity Fair, with a frontispiece portrait and twenty-one full page plates as well as further illustrations in text. Collated, complete;1898 The History of Pendennis with a frontispiece and nineteen full page plates. Collated, complete;1898 Yellowplush Papers, Great Hoggarty Diamond, &c. with a frontispiece and twenty-four full page plates. Collated, complete;1898Barry Lyndon, &c with a frontispiece and fifteen full page plates. Collated, complete.1898 Paris Sketch Book, Irish Sketch Book, Cornhill to Cairo, &c. with a frontispiece and sixteen full page plates. Collated, complete.1898 Contributions to Punch, &c. with a frontispiece and seven full page plates as well as twelve caricatures. Collated, complete.1898 Henry Esmond and the Lectures with a frontispiece and nineteen full page plates. Collated, complete.1898 The Newcomes with a frontispiece and twenty full page plates. Collated, complete.1898 Christmas Books &c. with a frontispiece and ninety-two full page plates. Collated, complete.1899 The Virginians, with a frontispiece and twenty full page plates. Collated, complete.1899 Adventures of Philip with a frontispiece and twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete.1899 The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel, The Widower, &c. with a frontispiece and twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete.1899 Ballads and Miscellanies with a frontispiece and fifteen full page plates. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally a trifle rubbed with shelf wear, bumped and chipped to head and tail of spine with minor loss to head of spine 'Barry Lyndon', 'Esmond' exposing head band. Back strip darkened. Minor damp mark to back strips and occasional board. First few leaves of 'Newcomes' cockled due to damp. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8950 TOTAL Pp. VOL. I. VANITY FAIR 676 p., VOL II. PENDENNIS 752 p., VOL. III YELLOW PLUSH PAPERS 649 p., VOL. IV. THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON ESQ 711p., VOL. V SKETCH BOOKS 772 p., VOL. VI CONTRIBUTIONS TO "PUNCH" ETC 759 p., VOL. VII HENRY ESMOND ETC 725 p., VOL. VIII THE NEWCOMES 806 p., VOL. IX CHRISTMAS BOOKS ETC 340 p., VOL. X THE VIRGINIANS 809 p., VOL. XI THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ETC 640 p., VOL. XII DENIS DUVAL ETC 568 p., VOL. XIII BALLADS AND MISCELLANIES 743 p. PUBLICATION 1898-1899. COPYRIGHT 1898. BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION. DESCRIPTION: BLUE CLOTH HARDBOUND, GILT STAMPED/EMBOSSED TITLE/BLUE STAMPED DESIGN ON SPINE COVER/BOARDS, FRONTIS ENGRAVING WITH PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED TEXTS, GILT UPPER LEAF EDGE. DIMENSIONS: 8 7/16" x 5 5/8" x 1 1/2" each volume. CONDITION: VERY GOOD +; VERY GENTLY BUMPED SPINE CROWN/HEELS, SOME GENTLY BUMPED/RUBBED CORNER TIPS.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. Vols 2 to 13 inclusive in matching red cloth with Anne Ritchie's monogram on the front board. Well illustrated and internally generally very clean. Dated c 1902/3. Please click on 'Bianco Library' below to see what we mean by condition and for our terms. Buying more than one book will save on postage costs. To help our customers, we have split our books into 70 + categories that can be found from our homepage. Size: 5.5" - 8" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume 1 Vanity Fair- xliv, 676pp. Illustrated by the author who was no mean illustrator. Volume 2 Pendennis - xlviii. 752pp. Illustrated by the author. Volume 3 Mr Charles J. Yellowplush - The History of Samuel Titmarsh The Great Hoggarty Diamond and Cox's Diary. - xli, 649pp. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Frontis portrait of the author Volume 4 The Memoirs of Barry Liyndon, The Fitz Boodle Papers, Men's Wives, Catherine a Story. Illustrated by J E.Millais, Luke Fildes and the author. xxxvi. 711 pp. Volume 5 Sketch Books, The Paris Sketchbook of Mr M.A.Titmarsh, The Irish Sketchbook, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Illustrate by the author and with a frontis portrait. xliii, 772 pp. Volume 6 Contributions to "Punch" by Thackeray. Illustrated by t he author and with a frontis portrait. xxxvii. 759 pp. Volume 7 The History of Henry Esmond, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. The Four Georges. Charity and Humour. Illustrated by George du Maurier, F.Barnard,and Frank Dicksee xivi, 725 pp. Volume 8 Thr Newcomes, memoirs of a most respectable family. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. xl. 806 pp. Volume 9 The Christmas Books of Me M.A.Titmarsh. Illustrated by the author and Richard Doyle, lx plus nine plates. 340 pp. Volume 10 The Virginians, a tale of the last century. Illustrated by the author. xliii, 809 pp. Volume 11 The Adventures of Philip on his way through the world, showing who robbed him, who helped him and who passed him by. To which is prefixed A Shabby Genteel Story. Illustrated by the author and Frederick Walker. xlvi. 640 pp. Volume 12 The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel the Widower, Roundabout Papers and Denis Duval, Illustrated by the author, Frederick Walker and Charles Keene. xxxix, 568 pp. Volume 13 Ballades and Miscellanies. With a life of the author and a bibliography. With illustrations by the author, George Cruikshank and John Leech. lxxxii, 749pp Overseas shipping by quotation.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). Beautiful Bumpus bound edition of the complete works of William Makepeace Thackeray in thirteen volumes. Biographical edition of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete in thirteen volumes exquisitely bound in half morocco over marbled boards signed J & E Bumpus. Featuring biographical introductions by his daughter, Anne Ritchie.William Makepeace Thackeray was a famous English novelist known for his satirical works such as Vanity Fair, portrait of British Society, andThe Luck of Barry Lyndon, later adapted for a Stanley Kubrick film.Bound with half title and additional uniform title page.Illustrated with numerous illustrations in the text and further full page plates by Thackeray himself. Some illustrations are by J E Millais, Luke Fildes, et al.Comprising the following titles:Vanity Fair, with a frontispiece portrait and twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete;The History of Pendennis with a frontispiece and nineteen full page plates. Collated, complete;Yellowplush Papers, Great Hoggarty Diamond, &c.with a frontispiece and twenty-four full page plates. Collated, complete;Barry Lyndon, &c with a frontispiece and fifteen full page plates. Collated, complete.Paris Sketch Book, Irish Sketch Book, Cornhill to Cairo,&c. with a frontispiece and sixteen full page plates. Collated, complete.Contributions to Punch, &c.with a frontispiece and seven full page plates as well as twelve caricatures. Collated, complete.Henry Esmond and the Lectures with a frontispiece and nineteen full page plates. Collated, complete.The Newcomeswith a frontispiece and twenty full page plates. Collated, complete.Christmas Books &c.with a frontispiece and ninety-two full page plates. Collated, complete.The Virginians,with a frontispiece and twenty full page plates. Collated, complete.Adventure of Philipwith a frontispiece and twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete.The Wolves and the Lamb, Lovel, The Widower, &c.with a frontispiece and twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete.Ballads and Miscellanieswith a frontispiece and fifteen full page plates. Collated, complete. Rebound in half straight up grain morocco over marbled boards, gilt to top edge, marbled endpapers. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, back strip faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Twenty-five volumes. With biographical introductions by Thackeray's daughter, Anne Ritchie. Octavos. Illustrated. Three-quarter dark green leather over marbled papercovered boards with topedges gilt and the spines with raised bands and a tooled floral motif. Spines just a bit toned and slight loss to the topedges gilt, overall modest edgewear with a several corners showing a bit more wear, three volumes (XI, XVII, XXV) with short splits at the shoulders but sound, Volume XXII with a vertical foredge crease on the marbled front free endpaper, overall a soundly and handsomely bound very good or better set. The 1900 American edition in 25 volumes seems to be a more uncommon edition among the biographical sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Special Biographical Edition. An attractive set bound in three quarter turquoise morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gilt title, floral device, and raised bands to spines. Minor wear to edges of boards, hinges, bands, and corners. Slight darkening to spines. Clean interiors with illustrations. Previous owner's signature in pen dated 1901 to front free endpapers of all volumes. Marbled endpapers and top edges gilt. LIT/041719 This set will require an extra shipping fee.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Undated note, (circa 1875) two sided, on polished sheet approx 7x4.5" from author Anne Thackeray, daughter of the famous William Makepeace Tackeray, with embossed letterhead with her address in South Kensington, London "8 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington Gentleman I write to acknowledge/ with many thanks the safe/ arrival of the money/ which you have sent me for My Angel. I have / turned it into two fields / at Freshwater wh(ich) I shall/ always look upon as a / part of the American continent (and) consider that / I owe to its bountifulness/ Believe me overflow./ Yours faithfully." Miss Thackeray enthusiastically thanks presumably American buyers for their purchase from her of presumably American rights to publish her first novel "Miss Angel", published in England in 1875. The proceeds she writes financed purchase of land in Freshwater, a village on the western end of the Isle of Wright. Besides being the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke, during Thackeray's lifetime it was the home of poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron had a home there from 1860-1875. Indeed it was Cameron who brought Anne Thackeray to Freshwater. According to letters at Eton College, Anne Thackeray and Minny, one her four younger sisters, became "especially intimate with Alfred and Emily Tennyson after the sudden death of their father at the end of 1863. Julia Margaret Cameron was directly instrumental in this, by bringing them across to the Isle of Wight and putting them up in one of her Freshwater cottages, but Anne Thackeray suggests that it was their desire for reassurance and familiarity which made the presence of the poet especially attractive: 'It seemed to us that perhaps there more than anywhere else we might find some gleam of the light of our home, with the friend who had known him and belonged to his life and whom he trusted . and as we rested aimlessly in the twilight, we seemed aware of a tall figure standing in the window, wrapped in a heavy cloak, with a broad-brimmed hat. This was Tennyson, who had walked down to see us in silent sympathy.'1 It remained important for Anne and her younger sister Minny to detect something of the reality of their father memorialised in his friends, who would now become their friends. The story of the developing relationship between the Thackeray girls and the Tennyson family emerges in a variety of surviving sources, but nowhere more compellingly than in the family letters given by Anne's granddaughter to Eton College Library." (Source: John Alpin. Tennyson Research Bulletin; Lincoln Vol. 8, Iss. 4, Nov 2005). Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837 - 1919) was eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray whose several novels made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene. She is noted especially as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for short fiction that places fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond introduced into English the proverb, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for life." (Source: Wikipedia) In 1863, Anne Isabella published The Story of Elizabeth with immediate success. Other works followed and her first novel, of five, My Angel was published in 1875. Her second novel, published in 1877 "From an Island" is semi-autobiographical and could have been based in part on her life in Freshwater. Provenance; The heirs of the library of Sherman and Anne Lyon Haight, major American bibliophiles whose Dickens and Cruikshank collections are with Trinity College in Hartford CT. Paper-clipped to the note is a description excised from a book catalog for Cruikshank's "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman".

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 592.