Shelfmark
Lu.3.34(01)-Lu.3.34(02)
Author
Title
Vanity fair : a novel without a hero / by William Makepeace Thackeray; introduction by G. K. Chesterton; illustrations by John Austin.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : Printed for the Limited Editions Club by the Oxford University Press, 1931.
Physical description
2v, [20] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29cm.
Note
Printed by John Johnson.
Note
Both vols with publisher's fuchia buckram quarter-binding with green and orange decorated paper boards and lettering stamped in gold on spine ; both vols with pink and yellow decorated paper dust-jackets and housed in a slip card slipcase covered in the same paper.
Note
ECL copy: No. 1278 of 1500 and signed by illustrator.
Note
Both vols with ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Provenance
Both vols with booklabel and stamp of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Both vols with armorial bookplate of Pascoe Glyn.
Subject
England Social life and customs 19th century.
Added entry--name
Johnson, John printer.
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Chesterton, G. K., 1874 - 1936 (Gilbert Keith)
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Austen, John ill.
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Glyn, Pascoe Anthony George, 1911 - 1935 former owner.
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England Oxford.
Identifier
B25046