Burlesques. A Legend Of The Rhine. Rebeca & Rowena

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1856. leather_bound. Full brown morocco. Teg. Fine. 129 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel. This early work by Thackeray is decidedly contrary, a self-confessed middle-aged novel that begins where most novels end. Raised bands spine panels in gilt arabesques, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spine lettered in gilt. Inner contents clean. Original yellow front covers laid-in.