1913 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray / Hodder & Stoughton London / Attractive Large Format Antique Book / Beautifully Illustrated

A beautiful large-format antique copy of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic work Vanity Fair. Richly illustrated in colour. Undated, but was published by Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1913. In good condition. Condition in detail below.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound. Opens onto lovely illustrated endpapers, these have tanning and spotting. Has spotting around the outside edges of the pages, and then just occasionally in the text. With twenty superb tipped in-colour plates by Lewis Baumer (see photos), all present as called for. These have their original tissue guards still in place, some of the tissues have some slight staining on the top edge. The top closed edge is gilt, with tanning and some mild staining to the top of the fore-edge. This copy has not been written in and there are no other markings of previous ownership.

Light brown cloth covered boards have ornate gilt decoration to the front and spine. Has some very slight staining to the cloth on the top edge, front and back, but this is quite hard to spot unless looking closely. With beautiful gilt oval border around a paste-down colour illustration and gilt titles. The pink portrait illustration on the front has rubbed a little. Has some mild rubbing to the cloth on the corners and spine ends, with a couple of small splits to the cloth on the joints at the spine head. The gilt on both the front and spine is shiny bright and this is a very attractive book to display.

Your antique copy of Vanity Fair will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

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PLEASE NOTE DIMENSIONS of this large book: H 28.5 cm x W 23 cm, 1.9 kg, 483 pages. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

* If you would prefer for your book not to be decoratively wrapped and sent simply in the full protective packaging, please add a note to the order.

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