Thackeray, William M. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848.

Vanity Fair is bound in dark blue leather and with a thin gold border. There isn’t a design in neither the front nor the back. The spine of Vanity Fair is gold stamped with five raised leather separations. There are also gold decorations and gilded edges. The front and back inside panels have elaborate designs with almost a peacock feather look. The colors used are blue and browns with gold designed borders. The pages feel very tight and are hard to flip, which shows that this book was not read very often.

Vanity Fair is a novel about a stop along the pilgrim's progress: a never-ending fair held in a town called Vanity. This is meant to represent man's sinful attachment to worldly things. This piece of work is still published and remains a popular novel. This novel is 21 mm by 13 mm. This is the size of a book you would find for sale at a book store today.