William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
Vanity Fair: a novel without a hero
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848
LD.29.105, plate opposite p. 279

‘Mr Jos shaves off his mustachios’. The first edition of Vanity Fair in single-volume form has steel and wood engravings by the author. Here, Jos is shown clean-shaven.