The works of William Makepeace Thackeray in twenty-six volumes: Volume XII. The great hoggarty diamond. A little dinner at timmins`s. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. - used book

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 1st Edition 1893, Limited and Numbered, Association Copy, beautifully bound. The Limitation Leaf reads: 'Only One Thousand Copies of this Edition have been Printed for Sale. This Copy is Number 273.' The Volume for sale here is one from the set 'The Works of Willam Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Four Volumes'. Alas we do not have the full set, but have others in the series; please check our listings. The book in hand here is Volume XII only [of 24]. It contains The Great Hoggarty Diamond; A Little Dinner at Timmins's; and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. Very Thick Royal 4to. [i] + xv + 334pp. + [i]; new endpapers, fly leaf and final leaf. Volume has profuse and wonderful illustrations by the author, each tipped-in and tissue-guarded, including frontispiece, vignette illustrated title page, 9 further full-plate pages, very many chapter head-pieces and in-text vignettes. Volume is in very good condition, clean tight sound and square, no inscriptions, with slight browning and foxing. Volume is beautifully bound more recently and in very good condition, half wide-weave linen cloth over coloured marbled boards with matching coloured marbled endpapers, new fly and final leaves, well held in joints and hinges, clean crisp corners and edges, fore and lower edge of leave attractively untrimmed. Good shelf presence with bright silver lettered morocco leather title label. Association copy, the set previously owned by James Tomkinson of Willington, with his attractive armorial bookplate. Tomkinson (1840-19100) was an English landowner and Liberarl Party politician, High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1887, paternal great-great grandfather of the socialite and 'It Girl' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. The Volume would be a great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike. Please check our listings for more from the set of Thackeray's Works. This is an exceptionally heavy tome, which will accru