William Makepeace Thackeray — Vanity Fair

London, Hodder & Stoughton , [1913]. Cloth. William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel with the colourful illustrations of Lewis Baumer. William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel concerned with the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during the Napoleonic Wars. Originally published as a monthly serial in nineteen volumes. The novel is now considered an influential classic. As the title suggests, the novel was also the inspiration behind the title of the British lifestyle magazine, which was first published in 1868 and was known for its caricatures of famous people of Victorian and Edwardian society.Here adorned with frontispiece as well as nineteen further coloured plates by English cartoonist Lewis Baumer. Collated, complete. Baumer worked for the British magazine 'Punch' from 1897. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with colourful illustration to front board. Externally with light bumping to head and tail of spine, damp marking to rear board. Previous ownership ink inscription to front free endpaper dated 1915. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to fore edge only affecting endpaper lightly, pages otherwise bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Lewis Baumer. Good .