The virginians - A tale of the last century

First edition with all the features of the first printing: "actresses" line 33 of page 207 of the first volume, chapters 47 and 48 erroneously printed as 48 and 49 in the first volume.
Full grey paper boards, smooth spines decorated with blind fillets and slightly discolored, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Work illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray, each volume with a frontispiece, a title vignette, 22 plates hors-texte as well as numerous in-text drawings.
Occasional foxing, for each of the 48 plates hors-texte, a placement indication in relation to the text was probably made by the binder so as not to mistake the order of the engravings.
Handsome copy.