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THACKERAY [William Makepeace] The history of Henry Esmond, Esq ... 1st edition, 3 volumes, origin...

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THACKERAY [William Makepeace] The history of Henry Esmond, Esq ... 1st edition, 3 volumes, origin...
THACKERAY [William Makepeace]
The history of Henry Esmond, Esq ... 1st edition, 3 volumes, original olive brown cloth, printed paper labels, labels chipped, cloth with some wear, fading and staining, corners bumped, some marginal foxing, 8vo.,
London: Smith, Elder, 1852 [3]
Note: Sadlier 3187 The 16 pp. catalogue of books at the end of vol. 3 is dated October 1852 and describes the work as "now ready." Thackeray's name appears only on the half-titles and the spine labels. The "o" in Cornhill in vol. 2 has dropped, as has the comma following "Esmond" on the titlepage of vol. 3. The comma after "Company" on the titlepage in vol. 1 is printed correctly. Endpapers are plain white.
Thackeray began Henry Esmond in the late autumn of 1851 and completed in May 1852. The manuscript, which was written out by Thackeray, his daughter Anne, and Eyre Crowe, "was turned into a strange-looking book. Instead of setting it in the normal typographical style of the mid-nineteenth century, the printing firm of Brdabury and Evans (who printed Esmond for Smith, Elder) acquired an eighteenth-century type-face, complete with long s, and produced three small, heavily leaded volumes of deliberately anachronistic appearance: the visual
equivalent of
Thackeray's pastiche eighteenth-century prose." Gaskell From writer to reader p. 158
£250-350
See Illustration.
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