Of her type, Becky has never been bettered, and the authorâ s famed irony still stingsâ (Farrow, 50). â As Thackerayâ s masterpiece this novel has outlasted the great majority of his workâ ¦ The Waterloo scenes are among the best narrative passages in an English novel. â After that book there could be no doubt about the greatness of its writerâ ¦ at last the novel of real life on the great scale has been discoveredâ (Saintsbury, in Grolier, English Prose Fiction, 102). Vanity Fair was Thackerayâ s first major work and established his continued high standing among Victorian novelists. Marks, engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title, and 38 engraved plates, spine in gilt compartments, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ivory silk doublures. Octavo, bound in full red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in Cosway-style binding with a miniature portrait of ThackerayÂinset into the front pastedown, bound for legendary book collector Harry F. First edition of Thackeray's masterpiece.
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