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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Sandglass laid in. Lightly read if read at all. No markings in book. Binding is fine. In original sunned slipcase.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. A smart signed limited edition copy of Thackeray's historical novel illustrated in colour by Edward Ardizzone, in the original slipcase. A limited edition, with this being No.588/1500.Signed by the illustrator to the edition page.In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. In the original slipcase.A work by the noted Victorian author William Makepeace Thackeray.The volume isahistorical novel that tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, acolonelin the service ofQueen Anneof England. A typical example ofVictorian historical novels, it tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England, and utilises characters both real (but dramatised) and imagined.Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, and coloured by hand in the studio of Walter Fischer.Ardizzone was a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In the original slipcase.Externally, excellent. Light fading to spine. Slight rubbing to spine label. Slipcase is very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustratore). signed by author. book.…