A Thackeray Library. First editions and first publications, portraits, water colors, etchings, drawings and manuscripts collected by Henry Sayre Van Duzer.

Cloth, 8vo, vii, 198 pp, ills. Approximately 750 entries. From the preface: " 'A Thackeray Library'. describes a complete set of the First Editions and the First Publications of Thackeray's writings in book form, and in the magazines, newspapers and periodicals of England and the United States. It is arranged as a Bibliography of first publications, and all items not contained in the Library are indicated by a star. The catalogue is divided as follows: 1. Portraits, Water Colors, Etchings, Manuscripts and Drawings; 2. First Editions in book form and First Appearances in periodicals and newspapers, including posthumous publications; 3. Thackeray's writings in a. Fraser's Magazine, b. Punch, c. The Cornhill Magazine; 4. Chronological Index; 5. Thackerayana, consisting of numerous articles on Thackeray and his writings. Many of the publications in the United States are first editions of the work and precede the English edition of the same, and in some instances the first American editions differ from the English edition. All such American publications I have attempted to include." A handful of entries ticked, otherwise Very Good.…