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Vanity Fair : a novel without a hero
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- Creator
- introd. by G.K. Chesterton ; illus. by John Austen
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- English
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- Publication
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- [New York, N.Y.] : Printed for the Limited Editions Club by the Oxford University Press, 1931
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- 2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
- OCLC
- ocm03121315, ocm03121315
- Pages [366] and [774] blank.
- Paged continuously.
- Volume 1: xx, 365, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates -- volume 2: vi, [2], [367]-772, [2] p., [11] leaves of plates.
- Issued as number 10 of series 2. See: Limited Editions Club bibliography.
- In slipcase, as issued.
- "Fifteen hundred copies have been printed ... by John Johnson, printer to the University of Oxford ... and each book has been signed by the artist"--Colophon.
- Line illustrations by John Austen lithographed by Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son, and hand-colored by Daniel Jacomet; set in monotype Baskerville; mould-made Arches paper; designed and bound by John Johnson in half magenta linen, gold-stamped pattern paper sides; decorated endpapers, binding papers and jacket papers by Albert Rutherston.
- Newman, R.G. Great and good books, 22
- Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 22
- Limited Editions Club. Monthly letter of the Limited Editions Club, no. 26