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THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1849. 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).
Synopsis
Written immediately after Vanity Fair, Pendennis has a similar atmosphere of brooding disillusion, tempered by the most jovial of wits. But here Thackeray plunders his own past to create the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London. The result is a superbly panoramic blend of people, action and background. The true ebb and flow of life is caught and the credibility of Pen, his worldly uncle, the Major, and many of the other characters, extends far beyond the pages of the novel. Held together by Thackeray's flowing, confident prose, with its conversational ease of tone, Pendennis is as rich a portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s as it is a thorough and thoroughly entertaining self-portrait.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 099916
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1849
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Morocco
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Raised Band(s)
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- First Edition
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Vignette
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- Offset
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