Over 87 glossy full page black and white illustrations accompany the text, various British illustrators of the 19th Century. The four books are part of a larger set. Each chapter title complete, with separate page numbers. The Roundabout Papers: to which is added: The Second Funeral of Napoleon, Critical Reviews, The Four Georges. The English Humorists of the 18th Century, Sketches and Travels in London. Christmas Books: Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Mrs. Perkins Ball, Out Street, Dr. Birch, The Kicklebury's on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring, Ballads and Tales, The History of Samuel Titmarsh & The Great Hoggarty Diamond, Men's Wives, The Book of Snobs. Burlesques - Yellow Plush Papers: Novels by Eminent Hands, Jeames's Diary; Adventures of Major Gahagan; A Legend of The Rhine; Rebecca and Rowena; The History of the Next French Revolution; Cox's Diary. The Newcomes: Memoirs of a most Respectable Family, Vol. 1 only. William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863), Anglo-Indian, born in Calcutta. He was England's most brilliant 19th century novelist and satirist, Thackeray was most widely known for Vanity Fair, and his broad view of the English society. His writings were only second in popularity to Charles Dickens, in their time. Four robust books, bound in brown cloth, mild Mild rubbing of extremities and boards. Gilt title, and lettering to spines. TEG. Front hinge of Round and rear hinge in Burlesques starting. Page 277, Roundabout volume upper corner chipped. Closed 1 inch tear at lower gutter title page of Burlesque volume. Profusely illustrated, full page glossy plates. All books tightly bound, mild toning, clean text. sm 8vo. No date circa late 19th Century- part of a larger set.

Works of Thackeray, English Satire, english Ballads, the Four Georges, Christmas Books Mr. Titmarsh, Funeral of Napoleon, British HumoristsThe Book of Snobs, Hanoverian monarchs, The Four Georges, Roundabout Papers Thackeray, Fitz-Boddle Papers, The Newcomes Thackeray19th Century, British Satire, Illustrated Literature