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8vo. [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [9], xii-xvi, [1], 2-624 pp. In an early twentieth-century binding by Root of London: full blue polished pigskin, tooled with gold floral inlays, borders, and gold decorations on each board, gold decorations to the edges of the boards and to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gold lettering, gold borders, and gold and brown floral decorations; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound with a red ribbon bookmark and with a multi-color head and tailband. Housed in a marbled-paper slipcase. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and with 38 plates, all done in black and white. Also with in-text black and white illustrations. Van Duzer 231. Wolff 6699. Rustic heading on page 1. The ""Steyne"" illustration on page 336, the ""Mr. Pitt"" typo on page 453. A lovely copy of Thackeray's novel, beautifully bound. The spine mellowed. A 1937 Christmas gift inscription on the first blank leaf.
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