TITLE

Vanity Fair

IMPRINT

Four Corners Books

PRICE US

$40.00 CDN $40.00

ISBN

9780956192844 TRADE

FORMAT

Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in., 848 pg, 40 b&w.

CATALOG

FALL 2011 p. 57   

DISTRIBUTOR

D.A.P.

PUB DATE

6/30/2011

STATUS

Active

STOCK

In stock

FOUR CORNERS BOOKS

Vanity Fair

By William M. Thackeray. Illustrations by Donald Urquhart.

The Four Corners Familiars series invites contemporary artists to illustrate and produce a new edition of a classic novel or short story. This magnificent edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair (first published in 1847-48) is the sixth in this series, and is produced by the British artist Donald Urquhart. Urquhart's black-and-white drawing style and subject matter is perfectly suited to the themes of Vanity Fair, which follows the fortunes of its strong-minded and strong-willed anti-heroine Becky Sharp through the follies and hypocrisies of early nineteenth-century British society. Urquhart's drawings, inspired by the fashions and iconography of 1930s Hollywood, focus exclusively on Becky Sharp. “I wanted to sideline all the secondary characters,” says Urquhart. The novel is newly typeset in Perpetua and Felicity (partly chosen for their feminine names), typefaces designed by Eric Gill.

Featured image is an interior spread from Vanity Fair.

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