NEW EDITION OF W. M. THACKERAY’S WORKS.
In 13 Volumes, Large crown 8vo. cloth, gilt top, 6s. each.
THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION
OF
W. M. THACKERAY’S COMPLETE WORKS.
THIS NEW AND REVISED EDITION
COMPRISES
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL and HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, SKETCHES, and DRAWINGS.
Derived from the Author’s Original Manuscripts and Note-Books.
AND EACH VOLUME INCLUDES A MEMOIR, IN THE FORM OF AN INTRODUCTION,
By Mrs. RICHMOND RITCHIE.
CONTENTS OF THE VOLUMES:—
1. VANITY FAIR. With 20 Full-page Illustrations, 11 Woodcuts, a Facsimile Letter, and a new Portrait.
2. PENDENNIS. With 20 Full-page Illustrations and 10 Woodcuts.
3. YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS, &c. With 24 Full-page Reproductions of Steel Plates by George Cruikshank, 11 Woodcuts, and a Portrait of the Author by Maclise.
4. THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON: THE FITZBOODLE PAPERS, &c. With 16 Full-page Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A., Luke Fildes, A.R.A., and the Author, and 14 Woodcuts.
5. SKETCH BOOKS:—THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK; THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK; NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM CORNHILL TO GRAND CAIRO, &c. With 16 Full-page Illustrations, 39 Woodcuts, and a Portrait of the Author by Maclise.
6. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ‘PUNCH’ &c. With 20 Full-page Illustrations, 26 Woodcuts, and an Engraving of the Author from a Portrait by Samuel Laurence.
7. THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND; and THE LECTURES. With 20 Full-page Illustrations by George du Maurier, F. Barnard, and Frank Dicksee, R.A., and 11 Woodcuts.
8. THE NEWCOMES. With 20 Full-page Illustrations by Richard Doyle and 11 Woodcuts.
9. CHRISTMAS BOOKS, &c. With 97 Full-page Illustrations, 122 Woodcuts, and a Facsimile Letter.
10. THE VIRGINIANS. With 20 Full-page Illustrations, 6 Woodcuts, a Photogravure, and a new Portrait.
11. THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP; and A SHABBY GENTEEL STORY. With 24 Full-page Illustrations by Frederick Walker and the Author, 6 Woodcuts, a Facsimile of MS., and 2 Facsimile Letters.
12. LOVEL THE WIDOWER; ROUNDABOUT PAPERS; DENIS DUVAL, &c. With 20 Full-page and 11 Text Illustrations by Frederick Walker, A.R.A., Charles Keene, and the Author, and 2 pages of MS. in facsimile.
13. BALLADS AND MISCELLANIES. With 35 Full-page Illustrations by the Author, George Cruikshank and John Leech, 35 Woodcuts, 3 Portraits of Thackeray’s Ancestors, an Engraving of the Author from a Drawing by Samuel Laurence, and a Photogravure, from a Drawing by Chinnery, of Thackeray at the age of 3, with his Father and Mother. The volume also contains a Life of Thackeray by Leslie Stephen and a Bibliography.
[On April 15.
The Bookman.—‘In her new biographical edition Mrs. Richmond Ritchie gives us precisely what we want. The volumes are a pleasure to hold and to handle. They are just what we like our ordinary every-day Thackeray to be. And prefixed to each of them we have all that we wish to know, or have any right to know, about the author himself; all the circumstances, letters, and drawings which bear upon the work.’
⁂A Prospectus of the Edition, with specimen pages, will be sent post free on application.
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