Buy this book on-line WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY : The Students' Quarter, or Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since. "With original coloured illustrations" [by the author]John Camden Hotten, London [1874]
First edition, the first issue (with Hotten imprint). 202pp. Original cloth, slightly marked and handled, lettered in gold at the spine. Title-hinge tender. Illustrated with five coloured plates featuring drawings by the author. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown alongside a short relevant extract from an old dealer catalogue. A good, sound copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. "The matter for this publication was obtained by Hotten directly or indirectly from the 'Corsair', published in America in 1839. Not realising that it was copyright in England, he prepared the book , when he learned that a large part of it had been published in 'The Paris Sketch Book' in 1840. Hotten died in 1873, when the book was still unpublished. Chatto was an assistant of his, and he and Windus purchased the publishing business and stock. It is believed that they, finding the work was covered by copyright, sold all the stock, bound and unbound, to an American dealer - the bound copies bearing Hotten's name on the title and cloth covers. The unbound sheets, with Hotten's name on the title, they bound with their name on the cloth covers." - Henry Sayre Van Duzer, A Thackeray Library.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY : The Students' Quarter, or Paris Five-and-Thirty Years Since. "With original coloured illustrations" [by the author]. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, livres illustrées, rare books, used books and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |