NEW EDITION OF W. M. THACKERAY'S WORKS. 



IN COURSE OF ISSUE IN THIRTEEN MONTHLY VOLUMES. 



Large Crown 8vo, Cloth, Gilt Top, 6s. each. 



THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OP 



I, I. THACKERAY'S COMPLETE WORKS, 



THIS NEW AND REVISED EDITION 



COMPRISES 



ADDITIONAL MATERIAL AND HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED 

 LETTERS, SKETCHES, AND DRAWINGS 



Derived from the Aiithors Original Manuscripts and Note-Books t 

 And each Volume includes a Memoir, in the form of an Introduction, by 



MRS. RICHMOND RITCHIE. 



The following will be the order of the volumes : 



1. VANITY FAIR. With 20 Full-page Illustrations, II Woodcuts, a 



Facsimile Letter, and a New Portrait. [Ready. 



2. PENDENNIS. With 20 Full-page Illustrations and 10 Woodcuts. [Ready. 



3- YELLOWPLUSH PAPERS, etc. With 24 Full-page Reproductions of 



Steel Plates by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, n Woodcuts, and a Portrait of the Author 

 by MACLISK. [Ready. 



4- THE MEMOIRS OF BARRY LYNDON : The Fitzboodle Papers, 



etc. With 16 Full-page Illustrations by J. E. MILLAIS, R.A., LUKH FILDES, A.R.A., 

 and the Author, and 14 Woodcuts. [Ready. 



5. SKETCH BOOKS : The Paris Sketch Book, The Irish Sketch 



Book, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, etc. With 16 

 Full-page Illustrations, 13 Woodcuts, and a Portrait. [Ready. 



6. CONTRIBUTIONS TO * PUNCH,' etc. With 20 Full-page Illustra- 



tions, 26 Woodcuts, and an Engraving of the Author from a Portrait by SAMUEL 

 LAURENCE. [Ready. 



7. THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND ; and THE LECTURES. 



With 20 Full-page Illustrations by GEORGE DU MAURIER, F. BAKNARD, and FRANK 

 DICKSEE, R.A., and n Woodcuts. [Ready. 



8. THE NEWCOMES. With 20 Full-page Illustrations by RICHARD 



DOYLK. [On Nov. 15. 



9- CHRISTMAS BOOKS, etc. I 11. PHILIP, etc. 

 10. VIRGINIANS. 12. DENIS DUVAL, etc. 



13. MISCELLANIES, etc. 



From the DAILY CHRONICLE.' We shall have, when the thirteen volumes of this 

 edition are issued, not indeed a biography of Thackeray, but something which will 

 delightfully supply the place of a biography, and fill a regrettable gap in our literary records.' 



From the ACADEMY. 1 Thackeray wished that no biography of him should appear. 

 It is certain that the world has never ceased to desire one, hence the compromise effected 

 in this edition of his works Mrs. Ritchie, his daughter, will contribute to each volume in 

 this edition her memories of the circumstances under which her father produced it. Such 

 memoirs, when complete, cannot fall far short of being an actual biography.' 



From the GUARDIAN.' Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co. have done well to give a 

 thoroughly "holdable" as well as readablejorm to the BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OF 

 THACKERAY. The new " Vanity Fair " is handsome enough for dignity, and yet light 

 enough to be read with comfort.' 



%* A Prospectus of the Edition^ with Specimen Pages, will be sent post free on application. 

 London: SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 Waterloo Place. 



