Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Thackeray /

Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936.

Thackeray / by G.K. Chesterton and Lewis Melville. - London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. - 40 p. 23 cm. - Bookman biographies ; 8 .

Cover title: W.M. Thackeray. Front endpaper annotations: [notes in pencil] Bought from the Rev. J.D. Orpen 19 May 1953. Thackeray by G.K. Chesterton......1 The Characters + Places of Thackeray's books by Lewis Melville........12 [illustrated bookplate] Illustration of a chair in front of an open window. Books on shelves surround the window and a sleeping dog lies on the floor in the foreground. Text reads: Ex Libris, Dorothy E. Collins ‘The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned, is that people to whom they are lent, find it so much easier to retain the books than their contents’ [quote author in text too small to read] Front page annotations: [notes in blue pen] Aidan Mackey



Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.