THE VIRGINIANS / Thackeray / 1858 1st. Ed. 1st. Issue. / Original cloth

Description: William Makepeace Thackeray THE VIRGINIANS A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY Original Publisher's Cloth, Two Volumes 1858 First Edition, First Issue. London: Bradbury and Evans. Two volumes, bound from the parts. Original publisher's blue cloth. Blind stamping on the spines and boards, gilt stamping on the spine. Professionally restored; spines laid back down, hinges and joints reinforced. Worn and frayed at the extremities. Text blocks are square and tight. Illustrated (46 steel and wood engravings) by the Author. Volume I features 382 pages, Volume II features 376. Pale yellow end-papers. Points include "actresses" for "ancestresses" on pg. 207, line 33; misnumbered chapters 47 and 48; and advertisement of Thackeray's works at the end of Volume I. Good condition. W.P. Thackeray was a prominent novelist, illustrator, satirist and parodist.Thackeray is best known as a literary and social rival of Charles Dickens. Dickens had rejected Thackeray as an illustrator when the two were young men; and they later publicly quarreled decades later over the membership status of peer Edmund Yates within their Gentleman's Garrick Club. THE VIRGINIANS is a sequel to HENRY ESMOND ; whereas the twin grandsons of Esmond enlist into the British army at the outbreak of the American War of Independence. General George Washington is depicted as a villain who nearly kills one of the brothers in a duel. Thackeray's most famous work is VANITY FAIR. A must addition to the personal library of the Thackeray, Victorian and even Dickens scholar and bibliophile. Please check out my other 19th century Victorian/Dickensian era first edition titles.

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