THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero, with illustrations on steel and wood by the author, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 8vo, A COSWAY STYLE BINDING BY BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), blue morocco, covers with gilt floral borders, upper cover set with AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF THACKERAY within a gilt frame, lower cover with floral lozenge, spine in six gilt compartments, ivory watered silk doublures and liners, g.e., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE in book form, 40 etched plates by Thackeray (including frontispiece and etched title-page) and wood-engraved text illustrations after Thackeray (plates foxed). Grolier/English 87; Ray/English 122; Van Duzer 231.