Dr. Birch and His Young Friends. By Mr. M[ichael] A[ngelo] Titmarsh.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. First edition, one of a number of Christmas “gift” books by Thackeray (using the Titmarsh pseudonym) and published by Chapman and Hall, which also included Mrs. Perkins’s Ball (1847) and Our Street (1848). Printed title-page with hand-colored engraving, chromolithographic title-page, fifteen color plates, including frontispiece.....