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FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles vols. I & II. Half dark pink calf, marbled boards, rubbed; spines gilt, dark green labels. Unattractive modern bookplate in vols II & III, removed from vol. I. Glover & Greene 77. Parrish & Miller p45. No Name followed the success of The Woman in White; Collins was paid �3,000 by Sampson Low and 4,000 copies were printed of the first edition with only 400 copies still available at the end of the publication day. An early didactic novel tackling the issue of illegitimacy; two orphaned sisters plot with unseemly characters to regain their inheritance. Glover and Greene list the detective character as Captain Wragge, a swindler and former military man who is also the girls' maternal uncle.