THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.

Mr. Brown's letters to a young man about town.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1901. First edition thus, 1 of 500 numbered copies, 8vo, viii & 210pp.; spine soiled, pages partially unopened, otherwise a very good copy in orig. yellow cloth over marbled paper-covered boards. The publishers' note states that the letters originally appeared in Punch in 1849 and were included in Thackeray's "Sketches in London." "As an independent series of Essays written under a nom de plume not elsewhere adopted by Thackeray, they possess an individuality of their own...and seem to deserve the distinction of special publication." Item #7702

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