William Blake: A Critical Essay. With facsimile Paintings, Coloured by Hand, after the Drawings by Blake and his Wife. Demy 8vo, 16s.
THE THACKERAY SKETCH-BOOK.
THACKERAYANA.
Notes and Anecdotes,
Illustrated by about Six Hundred Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the books of his every-day reading, now for the First Time Published, from the Original Drawings made on the margins of his books, &c. Large post 8vo, cloth extra gilt, gilt top, price 12s. 6d.
“It is Thackeray’s aim to represent life as it is actually and historically—men and women as they are, in those situations in which they are usually placed, with that mixture of good and evil, of strength and foible, which is to be found in their characters, and liable only to those incidents which are of ordinary occurrence. He will have no faultless characters, no demi-gods,—nothing but men and brethren.”—David Masson.
