The pages pictured are generally the worst. Pages toned, foxing, staining browning to plates (as is typical), with occasional offsetting from images onto adjacent pages. Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards and raised bands on spine. "Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? Let us then step into the coach with the Russell-square party, and be off to the Gardens." "A novel without a hero," Vanity Fair follows the entangled adventures of two school friends, the gentle, trusting Amelia Sedley and the calculating Becky Sharp, as they come of age during the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on 453, bound without ads, but missing the heading on page 1 in rustic type. Contains two of the three issue points, the woodcut of Marquis of Steyne on 336 (suppressed in later issues), and "Mr. First edition, early issue in volume form.
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