[Thackeray/Trollope]. 2 Titles (3 Vols). ++ [William Makepeace] W. M. Thackeray. THE VIRGNIANS. A Tale of the Last Century. 2 Vols. Ondon: Bradbury & Evans… 1858-1859. (Vol I’s dedication dated “September 7, 1859.”) 8vo. Vol I: viii, 382 pp. Vol II: viii, 376 pp. Later full leather. Surface chipping. Plates have the expected toning and foxing. Pencil to margin of 1st Contents page in either volume. 48 plates (incl frontises & engr titles). An original front wrap to the edition in parts (Parts 8 and 9) is bound in at front of Vol I and Vol II respectively, but in all other respects this is a 1st edition in book form, 1st issue: Vol I, p207, line 33 has actresses for ancestresses. In Vol I, chapters XLVII-XLVIII mis-numbered “XLVIII” and “XLIX.” Van Duzer 232. ++ Anthony Trollope. AN EDITOR’S TALES. Lon: Strahan & Co., 1870. [4], [375, [1] pp. 8vo. Modern leather, marbled eps, dentelle. Very good.