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TAYLOR, Theodore

THACKERAY THE HUMOURIST AND THE MAN OF LETTERS. THE STORY OF HIS LIFE, INCLUDING A SELECTION FROM HIS CHARACTERISTIC SPEECHES, NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME GATHERED TOGETHER

John Camden Hotten London 1864 1st edition. Edited by Hotten. Van Duzen 214. Illustrated frontis page includes a tipped in oval photo portrait by Ernest Edwards, Gernsheim 220. In original green ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 26 pages of illustrated publisher's ads at rear. Inner hinges cracking, and a bit of foxing on the frontis page, its verso, and on the verso of the front free endpaper. Photo a bit faded, but clear; overall a very good copy.

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