The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869. Two volumes bound together. Octavo (23.5cm). Half-bound in twentieth-century brown sheep, red cloth over boards; marbled endpapers; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [9] 10-210, [1-2], [i] ii [3-5] 6-202pp; extensively illustrated with in-text wood engravings. 1932 ex-libris of Ruth Stuart to verso of front free endpaper. A handsome copy in a sturdy binding, clean and fresh: Very Good.

An appealing copy of the novel in which Thackeray coined the word "capitalism" (OED).