Thackeray
November 16, 2004 11:56 AM Subscribe
Thackeray's 'Chronicle of the Drum', illustrated.
great, great post.
I've just bought my, I guess, 10th copy of "Vanity Fair" -- at Shakespeare & Co in Paris, an old leather-bound English copy with a deep dark red cover.
in my more innocent teenage years, I wanted to be Rawdon Crawley. I even learnt how to play piquet, for God's sake.
[this is embarrassing]
posted by matteo at 4:25 PM on November 16, 2004
I've just bought my, I guess, 10th copy of "Vanity Fair" -- at Shakespeare & Co in Paris, an old leather-bound English copy with a deep dark red cover.
in my more innocent teenage years, I wanted to be Rawdon Crawley. I even learnt how to play piquet, for God's sake.
[this is embarrassing]
posted by matteo at 4:25 PM on November 16, 2004
Great post. I have a version of this book that was printed around 1902 or so. It looks like the same illustrations and the same font type. (I say looks like, because I can't get to the Thackery - Trollope shelves, so I'm working from memory.)
Now, if someone could just dig up the Trollope illustrated manuscripts that I've heard of, but never seen.
posted by dejah420 at 4:40 PM on November 16, 2004
Now, if someone could just dig up the Trollope illustrated manuscripts that I've heard of, but never seen.
posted by dejah420 at 4:40 PM on November 16, 2004
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And ever since historian writ,
And ever since a bard could sing,
Doth each exalt with all his wit
The noble art of murdering.
posted by stbalbach at 1:56 PM on November 16, 2004