The Virginians. A tale of the last century

by William Makepeace Thackeray

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857-59. First edition in the original 24 monthly parts, 8vo, 48 plates, illustrations in text, original yellow printed wrappers, a few minor repairs to backstrips, wrapper to part I soiled, but generally a very good set with the earliest state of all the adverts, and with virtually all the required inserted slips, except five: the Straber ad in part 5, the specimen pages of Knight's Popular History at the back of part 17, the

• Binding: Wrappers

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