THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE. Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero. London: Bradbury and Evans, January 1847-July 1848. 20 parts in 19, 8vo, original yellow pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, spines of vertually all parts rebacked and/or chipped and repaired, rear wrappers of parts 4 and 6 from other parts, tears in rear wrappers of four parts repaired, rear wrapper of part 19/20 detached, soiling to wrappers, red half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, MAINLY FIRST ISSUE (with most of the first issue points noted in Van Duzer and Randall), 40 engraved plates and text illustrations by the author (a few plates with marginal browning), with nearly all of the inserted advertisements noted in Van Duzer. Randall, Vanity Fair, pp. 95-109; Van Duzer 230; Grolier English 87. Rare in the original parts.