NMLP P-034779 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

William Makepeace Thackeray · Bradbury and Evans (London) · 1858

First issue, first state, is identified by the misprint 'actresses' for 'ancestresses' on page 207 (in part 7 of the serial issue), and by part 12 having chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered as XLVIII-XLIX. Illustrated with 48 engraved plates and small in-text woodcuts by Thackeray himself -- the last book he illustrated in his own hand

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-034779 for "The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century" by William Makepeace Thackeray (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034779, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).