[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely First Edition of Thackeray's ROUNDABOUT PAPERS, 1863

[Charles Agvent]

THACKERAY, William Makepeace. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. REPRINTED FROM "THE 
CORNHILL MAGAZINE" London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First Edition. 
Original purple cloth. With four full-page illustrations, including two 
not mentioned in the List of Illustrations (per Van Duzer). Thackeray's 
daughter, Lady Ritchie, said that this volume "might serve as a diary of 
the last years of my father's life." Uncommon in the original cloth and 
in this condition. Heraldic bookplate of Arthur Edmund Stearns on the 
front pastedown along with the smaller bookplate of Helen and Carleton 
R. Richmond. Just about Fine. (#014513)        $750.00

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