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    Sale 7426

    Autograph Letters and Modern First Editions

    London, South Kensington

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    29 November 1996

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    Lot 187

    THACKERAY, William Makepeace. [The Works], London: Smith Elder, 1898-99, 13 volumes, 8°, 5 portrait frontispieces, engraved plates and illustrations after Thackeray, George Cruikshank, J. E. Millais, George du Maurier and others (first few leaves of vol. I spotted), contemporary red half morocco gilt by HARRISON of Pall Mall, spines gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, the remainder with repeated flower motif, marbled boards with matching marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate of Miles John Stapylton. (13)

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    GBP 322

    Estimate

    GBP 200 - GBP 400

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    THACKERAY, William Makepeace. [The Works], London: Smith Elder, 1898-99, 13 volumes, 8°, 5 portrait frontispieces, engraved plates and illustrations after Thackeray, George Cruikshank, J. E. Millais, George du Maurier and others (first few leaves of vol. I spotted), contemporary red half morocco gilt by HARRISON of Pall Mall, spines gilt in six compartments, lettered in two, the remainder with repeated flower motif, marbled boards with matching marbled edges and endpapers, armorial bookplate of Miles John Stapylton. (13)

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