The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1887.
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. Single volume (out of ten volumes). Octavo. 472pp. One hundred and twenty-seven illustrations from the author. Blind embossed brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Page fine edges and cloth moderately soiled, spine ends lightly rubbed, still a very good copy without dustwrapper as issued.
Item #180103
William Makepeace Thackeray
birth name: William Makepeace Thackeray
born: 7/18/1811
died: 12/24/1863
Biography
English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847-48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and Henry Esmond, 3 vol. (1852), set in the early 18th century. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore