Octavo

1849 & 1850 2 Volume First Edition, ‘History of Pendennis’, with illustrations throughout in steel and wood, text and illustration by William Makepeace Thackeray, Published by Bradbury & Evans, London. Octavo, Vol. 1 (384 pp), Vol 2. (372 pp). Dark green leather bindings; red leather titles and impressed with gilt titles and raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers and edges. The story from the famed Vanity Fair author best known for his social fiction recounts, with insight and some satire, the adventures of Arthur Pendennis, a young English gent born in the Country who sets out to London to seek a place in life and society. Scroll Down for further details