(Cambridge: At the University Press for The Limited Editions Club, 1954).

A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARDIZZONE. Generally acknowledged as one of the best of Thackeray's works. Sir Edward Burne-Jones wrote a long essay on the The Newcomes and hailed it "this last and greatest work of Thackeray; a wonderfully faithful picture of the great world as it passes daily before us, many-sided, deeply intricate; this is a masterpice of all novel writing..." Item #31139

2 volumes. First Edition, Limited and Signed by the artist Edward Ardizzone. This copy with the original prospectus and letter describing the book and its production, and with a copy of the The Illustrated Illustrator, describing letters written by Ardizzone on his progress with the illustrations. With engraved full-page illustrations in colours and many throughout the text in black and white. Royal 8vo, publisher's original black cloth over covers illustrated in colours by the artist, the spines lettered in black, housed in the original slipcase. xxii, 352; [viii], 353-742, [1] pp. A very fine and handsome set, as pristine, the slipcase with some light evidence of shelving.