THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1886]. Large 8vo, 265 x 184 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century crimson morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, g.e., on guards throughout, upper joint cracked at head, slight rubbing to extremities of spine, backstrip darkened, front free endleaf detached, cloth slipcase, the drawings slightly darkened. Wood-engraved title, wood-engraved vignette on verso of half-title, 9 full-page wood-engraved plates (one bound in as frontispiece) from the 1849 edition and 13 wood-engraved chapter vignettes after Thackeray, all illustrations printed on India paper mounted, with FIVE ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES, one heightened in brown wash, for the frontispiece, title, first, third, and last plates. | Christie's

Lot 287

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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1886]. Large 8vo, 265 x 184 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century crimson morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, g.e., on guards throughout, upper joint cracked at head, slight rubbing to extremities of spine, backstrip darkened, front free endleaf detached, cloth slipcase, the drawings slightly darkened. Wood-engraved title, wood-engraved vignette on verso of half-title, 9 full-page wood-engraved plates (one bound in as frontispiece) from the 1849 edition and 13 wood-engraved chapter vignettes after Thackeray, all illustrations printed on India paper mounted, with FIVE ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES, one heightened in brown wash, for the frontispiece, title, first, third, and last plates.

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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond. London: Smith, Elder & Co., [1886]. Large 8vo, 265 x 184 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.), nineteenth-century crimson morocco, covers and spine panelled in gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, g.e., on guards throughout, upper joint cracked at head, slight rubbing to extremities of spine, backstrip darkened, front free endleaf detached, cloth slipcase, the drawings slightly darkened. Wood-engraved title, wood-engraved vignette on verso of half-title, 9 full-page wood-engraved plates (one bound in as frontispiece) from the 1849 edition and 13 wood-engraved chapter vignettes after Thackeray, all illustrations printed on India paper mounted, with FIVE ORIGINAL PENCIL SKETCHES, one heightened in brown wash, for the frontispiece, title, first, third, and last plates.