THE VIRGINIANS, A TALE OF THE LAST CENTURY

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Twenty-four parts in the original wrappers. Issued from November 1857 through October 1859. Housed in a 1/2 morocco folding box. Neat inked name at top of first five wrappers. The first issue point is "actresses" on p.207, line 15 from the bottom. Using Van Duzen's bibliographical information, we find all the advertisements and slips are present as called for except the following: Number 1 lacks the green ad slip for Mr. Ainsworth's New Cereal and the Dickens ad leaf but has 8 pages of adverts; Number 4 has De Jongh's ad on yellow paper rather than pink; Number 20 lacks slip "In consequence of an accident...."; Number (truncated) 24 lacks 20pp. of ads for Grace Aguilar's work. See Van Duzen 232.. First Edition, First Issue. Yellow Wrappers. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jackets. Illus. by Illustrated By the Author.. Medium Crown Octavo. (Inventory #: 015868)