It has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, most recently into the 2004 film directed by Mira Nair, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Bob Haskins.įirst edition of Thackeray's comic masterpiece, illustrated by the author. Of her type, Becky has never been bettered, and the authorâ s famed irony still stings" (Farrow, 50). "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.
"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 discovered" (Saintsbury, in Grolier, English Prose Fiction, 102). Vanity Fair was Thackerayâ s first major work and established his continued high standing among Victorian novelists.
With the following first issue points: the engraved title dated 1848, and the "Mr. Octavo, bound in full leather, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 38 engraved plates. Frontispiece, illustrated title page, 38 full-page plates, and 150 steel and wood-engraved illustrations by the author throughout text.įirst edition of Thackeray's masterpiece. 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. "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." Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather over marbled paper covered boards and raised bands on spine. "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. Contains every first issue point, with the heading on page 1 in rustic type, the woodcut of the debauched Marquis of Steyne on 336 (suppressed in later issues), and "Mr.
First edition, first issue in volume form.
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