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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>From “Roundabout Papers”<BR><BR></span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>(1811-1863). English novelist and humorist, the principal rival of Charles Dickens. His most famous works of social commentary include <i>Vanity Fair</i> (1848) and <i>Henry Esmond </i>(1852). AMs, 1p, 8vo, [London], Dec, 1860. On blue stationery, a page from “On a Joke Which I Once Heard from the Late Thomas Hood,” an essay from his series “Roundabout Papers” [No. 9] published in the<i>Cornhill</i> magazine. In small part, “...<i>Sterne should make love to his neighbors’ wives. Swift for a long time was as poor as any wag that ever laughed, but he owed no penny to his neighbors: Addison when he wore his most threadbare coat would hold his head up</i>...” Unsigned. Approx 300 words with numerous corrections in Thackeray’s small, neat holograph. Boldly penned. As editor of <i>Cornhill</i>, he sometimes used these somewhat autobiographical essays to respond to various attacks. Normal folds; o/w VG.</span></p>