ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. REPRINTED FROM "THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE" by THACKERAY, William Makepeace - 1863

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1863. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 7.5" by 5". Not STater. The first edition of William Thackeray's collection of essays 'Roundabout Papers', all having been originally published in 'Cornhill Magazine', illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work. A collection of wise and intellectual essays by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in the 'Cornhill Magazine'. Including the essays 'On a Lazy Idle Boy', 'Tunbridge Toys', 'On a Hundred Years Hence', 'A Mississippi Bubble', and more. William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his satirical works looking at English society, most especially for 'Vanity Fair'. He tended to be quite savage in his attacks on society, publishing under various pseudonyms in his youth to avoid personal criticism. With a frontispiece, one plate, and numerous in-text illustrations. With sixteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear dated November 1862. With a half-title. Collated, complete. In… Read More

1863. London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1863. Original blindstamped purple cloth,spine slightly sunned, inner hinges weak. 352 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's ads. With four full-page illustrations. First edition.