THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS.
His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy. With illustrations on steel and wood by the author. In two volumes. Pp. viii+384+xii+372, engraved vignette title to both volumes, plus a total of 46 plates, numerous text illustrations including pictorial head & tailpieces; rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in qr. brown morocco, spines lettered in gilt between raised bands, light brown cloth boards; t.e.g., others uncut; later marbled endpapers and binder's blanks; early inked annotation (apposite to text) at foot of page 184 Volume I, most of the illustrations lightly offset, scattered light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Bradbury & Evans, London, 1849-1850. First edition in book form. Wolff 6693. *Originally issued in 23 monthly parts (nos. 23 & 24 being a double number), from November 1848 to December 1850. (Publication was suspended for a few months in 1849, due to the author's illness, as a result of which Thackeray dedicated the second volume to his doctor). Item #099916
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