The History of Henry Esmond, Esq; Written by himself [with] The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, The Four Georges, and Charity and Humour

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Biographical Edition [stated], reported as Volume VII of multi-volume set. Hardcover. Fair/No DJ present. George du Maurier, F. Barnard, and Frank Dicksee. Format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. xlvi, 725, [3] pages. Illustrations. Some ink and pencil marks and notations present. Cover has some wear and soiling. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 - 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for a 1975 film by Stanley Kubrick. Thackeray began "writing for his life", as he put it, turning to journalism in an effort to support his young family. He primarily worked for Fraser's Magazine, a sharp-witted and sharp-tongued conservative publication for which he produced art criticism, short fictional sketches, and two longer fictional works, Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Between 1837 and 1840, he also reviewed books for The Times. He was also a regular contributor to The Morning Chronicle and The Foreign Quarterly Review. Later, through his connection to the illustrator John Leech, he began writing for the newly created magazine Punch, in which he published The Snob Papers, later collected as The Book of Snobs. This work popularized the modern meaning of the word "snob". Thackeray was a regular contributor to Punch between 1843 and 1854. Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run, Thackeray became a celebrity. He remained "at the top of the tree", for the rest of his life, and produced several novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes and The History of Henry Esmond. The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England - specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration - and utilizes characters both real (but dramatized) and imagined. It weaves its central character into a number of events such as the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton-Mohun Duel and the Hanoverian Succession. Anthony Trollope thought Thackeray the greatest novelist of his time[3] and Esmond his masterpiece.