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[005291] Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy. ill. Thackeray, W. M. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849. First Thus. 8vo. Hardback. Good+. Two volumes complete, 1849-1850. Volume One – [3]-viii, [1], 2-384pp; Volume Two – [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-372pp. Contemporary half morocco and non-pareil marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title lettered directly to second panel, volume to fourth, remaining panels gilt with small flower head and volute tools, date to foot, non-pareil marbled endpapers, all edges marbled

Rubbed to extremities, corners bumped. Internally lightly browned, occasional foxing, but generally clean, plates to second volume with some light staining mainly to edges

With an engraved title and twenty-three plates to each volume (forty-eight in total as called for), bound without the half-title in volume one

With the ownership inscription of Elizabeth Walpole to the head of the engraved title of the first volume

Originally issued in parts, this is the first edition in book form, see Van Duzer 166. Block, page 244; Wolff 6693