THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8o. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title and 38 engraved plates, one-page advertisement and extra-illustrated with a portrait photograph of Thackeray bound in at beginning. 20th-century red morocco gilt, g.e. by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. FIRST EDITION, in book form, first issue with headline on page one in rustic type, the reading Mr. Pitt on p. 453, and the suppressed woodcut of Lord Steyne on p. 336. Grolier English 87.