Thackeray, William Makepeace

Dr. Birch and His Young Friends [Zaehnsdorf Binding]

By Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (William Makepeace Thackeray). Dr. Birch and His Young Friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. First edition. 
Twelvemo. [4], 49, [1, colophon], [1, ads] pp. Printed title-page with hand-colored engraving, chromolithographic title-page, fifteen color plates, including frontispiece, and fifteen black-and-white plates. Handsomely bound in full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London. Ruled and elaborately tooled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, red silk doublures, original pink card wraps bound-in at rear. Housed in later cloth slipcase. 
First edition, one of a number of Christmas gift books by Thackeray using the Titmarsh pseudonym and published by Chapman and Hall, which also included Mrs. Perkins’s Ball (1847) and Our Street (1848). 

Spine sunned, slight offsetting from plates, some plates lightly foxed, slipcase rubbed and worn. Very good. Item #2830

Price: $250.00