The Great Hoggarty Diamond. [Bound after:] Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero.

Publication details: New York: Harper and Brothers.[1848,]

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Bookseller Notes

The scarce first book-form edition of Thackeray's 'The Great Hoggarty Diamond', originally published serially in 'Fraser's Magazine' in 1841. This printing is based on the serial and hence is slightly different from the first English edition, which would be published in London the following year as 'The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond'. This version is much scarcer than the first English edition: according to Van Duzer, Dickson could locate only one copy, in the Boston Athenaeum, and there are no copies now listed in COPAC. ABPC records only four appearances at auction, all in America, and none after 1989.Bound before it is a later printing of the first American edition of Vanity Fair, with no date on the title but with publisher's ads including works issued in the early 1850s.

Description

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM of the 'Great Hoggarty Diamond', final ads discarded, 32 plates in 'Vanity Fair', foxed throughout (mostly lightly), plates toned, the upper blank corner of the illustrated title to vol. i torn away, some edges creased, pp. viii, [9]-332, [4], 67, 78-84 (as called for), 8vo., bound together in slightly later half dark red roan, marbled boards and endpapers, backstrip with four raised bands, second compartment gilt lettered direct, rubbed, a little chipping to backstrip, cornertips worn, morocco booklabel of Estelle Doheny, sound

Bibliography: (Van Duzer 88)