Mr. Titmarsh [William Makepeace Thackeray] — The Paris Sketch Book

London, John Macrone , 1840. First edition. Hardback. An uncommon complete first edition in two volumes of Thackeray's Paris stories, featuring illustrations by Thackeray himself. A charming book of Paris stories, descriptive of the city and France shorty after the time of Napoleon. The first edition of this work, uncommonly seen complete in two volume. One of the earliest published books by William Makepeace Thackeray, one of five published under pseudonym M. A. Titmarsh. Thackeray was a British author and illustrator known for his satirical works, in particular Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon; the latter was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1975. Illustrated with frontispieces to each volume as well as ten full page plates and other designs in text by the author, on copper and wood. Collated, complete. From the library of Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 2nd Baronet, featuring his bookplate to front pastedown. He was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament for Coventry up to 1881 when he became a High Court judge. In uniform half calf binding over marbled boards, with marbled edges and endpapers. Externally sound with shelf wear head and tail of spine chipped with minor losses, spine, joints and boards lightly rubbed. Henry Mather Jackson's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Age toning and light spotting affecting particularly the leaves of plates, as usual, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Illustrated with frontispieces to each volume as well as ten full page plates and other designs in text by the author, on copper and wood. Collated, complete.  Good . Ill.: William Makepeace Thackeray. Good .