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Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans; Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts; Chapman & Hall; Smith, Elder & Co 1855-64, London, 1855
First Edition
Leather. Condition: Near Fine. J. E. Millais (illustrator). First edition. A striking set of the first editions of four popular Barsetshire Chronicle novels by Anthony Trollope, beautifully presented here in a Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. Four of the Chronicles of Barsetshire novels uniformly bound.The first editions of these works, 'The Small House at Allington' being the first edition in book form.Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.'The Chronicles of Barsetshire' is a series of novels set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, and its cathedral town, Barchester. The novels deal with the issues of the clergy and gentry, as well as the political and social problems of the day.This series is considered to be Trollope's finest works.'The Warden', published in 1855, complete in one volume. Bound without adverts.'Barchester Towers', published in 1857, complete in three volumes. Half-title present to Volume I, bound without adverts.'Doctor Thorne', published in 1858, complete in three volumes. Bound without adverts.'The Small House at Allington', published in 1864, complete in two volumes, the first edition in book form, first printing, with 'hobbledehoya' to page 33 line 1 of Volume I, and page 70 paginated as 0 in Volume I. Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates. Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates. All plates are present. Bound without adverts. Illustrated by J. E. Millais. In a half crushed morocco with cloth to the boards, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Externally, enar fine, with a very little rubbing to the cloth. A few very light marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with a couple of small spots, spots a little heavier to 'Barchester Towers'. Bound without adverts. Near Fine. book.
Published by Henry Coldburn Publisher, London, 1850
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing published by Henry Coldburn in London, 1850. This 3 volume set is bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. The binding is tight in all three books and the pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A lovely set. Pictures available upon request.
Published by Smith, Elder and Co.; John Murray, London, 1933
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Magazine. 105 bound volumes and 98 individual issues in wrappers. Octavos. A long run from 1860-1933 of this famous Victorian literary magazine known for debuting the works of many important English writers. The set includes volumes 1-29 (January 1860-June 1874), 34-114 (July 1876-December 1916), and volumes 125-129 (January 1922-June 1924) bound in contemporary publisher's cloth or full linen boards. Also included are 98 monthly issues (numbers 337-450) in the original printed wrappers (July 1924-December 1933, lacking July 1930, and May, November, and December 1931). Among the many complete works included in this long run are the first appearances of *Framley Parsonage*, *The Claverings*, and two other novels by Trollope, as well as Thackeray's *The Adventures of Philip* and his complete column: "Roundabout Papers." Other works from the 1860s include *Romola* by George Eliot, *Wives and Daughters* by Elizabeth Gaskell, *Armadale* by Wilkie Collins, *Unto This Last* by John Ruskin, *Culture and Anarchy* by Matthew Arnold, and Tennyson's "Tithonus." Works from the 1870s and 1880s include *The Adventures of Harry Richmond* by George Meredith, *Daisy Miller* and *Washington Square* by Henry James, *The Pavilion on the Links* and *The Merry Men* by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first 29 chapters of *Far from the Madding Crowd* by Thomas Hardy. *J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement* was first published anonymously by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884, and *The White Company* first appeared under his name in 1891-92. *The Lagoon* by Joseph Conrad appeared in 1897. *Cornhill* maintained its high reputation up through the 1930s. Works from the early 20th Century include poems and prose pieces by Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, and Katherine Tynan. The magazine also featured illustrations by George du Maurier, Frederic Leighton, Edwin Landseer, John Everett Millais, and other leading artists. Most were engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel, and include numerous full-page and folding plates. Most volumes from 1860 to 1901 are bound in contemporary publisher's cloth (with some rebound in full cloth), volumes from 1902 to 1924 are rebound in full cloth (most with the original wrappers included), and single monthly issues from the 1920s and early 1930s are in the original printed wrappers. Ex-library set with bookplates, most 19th Century volumes with a small embossed stamp on the title pages and a perforated stamp on the plates. The earliest volumes are chipped at the spines and edges, a few with split spines and detached boards, else overall a good set of bound volumes; the single issues in wraps are unmarked and very good or better. A very nice assemblage of notable 19th Century literature and illustrations.
Published by Chapman and Hall London, 1881
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings of both books in this two volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London, 1857
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Rare first editions, first issue of one of Trollope's most important novels. Octavo, original cloth, blind stamped boards. Half-title present in Volume I, brick-red endpapers with advertisements. Sadleir 5. Bookplates of Oliver Brett on front free endpapers and of Duff Cooper on versos. In near fine condition. Each volume is housed in a three quarter calf clamshell box. Uncommon set in the original cloth of one of Trollope's most important novels. Barchester Towers is the second novel in Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over", he wrote in a letter during this period. "The evil with which he is beset is as inveterate as drinking â" as exciting as gambling." In his autobiography, Trollope observed "In the writing of Barchester Towers I took great delight. The bishop and Mrs. Proudie were very real to me, as were also the troubles of the archdeacon and the loves of Mr. Slope". When he submitted his finished work, his publisher, William Longman, initially turned it down, finding much of it to be full of "vulgarity and exaggeration." Recent critics offer a more sanguine opinion, "Barchester Towers is many readers' favorite Trollope", wrote The Guardian, which included it in its list of "1000 novels everyone must read.".
Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Chapman and Hall London, 1866
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings for all three books in the three volume set. A beautiful copy. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Smith and Elder, London, 1867
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings for all three books in the three volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's green cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Chapman and Hall London, 1862
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings of both books in this two volume set with the half titles and publisher's catalogue present. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's brown cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by London Smith, Elder and Co. 1864, 1864
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
2 volumes. First edition, with the first printing points "hobbledehoya" page. 33, line 1 and page 70 paginated as "0." in Volume I. With the provenance of William Marchbank with his armorial bookplate. With eighteen illustrations on plates by J. E. Millais, R.A. Tall 8vos, in the publisher's original textured green cloth, all boards handsomely embossed in blind in botanic motif, the upper covers with a large central gilt vignette featuring lettering and floral vines around caged birds, the spines beautifully gilt lettered and decorated in fine Victorian style in a country motif, with brown endpapers printed with ads in black. Now housed in a green cloth slipcase. iv, 312; iv, 316 pp. A very bright and attractive copy well preserved in original state, the text very fresh and clean, a little inconsequential evidence of age or mellowing at the prelims or endleaves, the cloth with a little expected rubbing or age evidence but still very bright with bright gilt, in all a very handsome set of a book seldom found in its original cloth, much less in bright collector's condition. AN EXTREMELY APPEALING COPY, FRESH AND BRIGHT AND CLEAN OF A BOOK SADLEIR SAYS IS TYPICALLY FOUND "EXCEPTIONALLY DIRTY". We are very pleased to point out how well this copy stands as the exception to that rule. This is the fifth of Trollope's Barsetshire novels and was written at the height of his creative powers and popularity. It follows two of his best-loved heroines, Lillian and Bell Dale. It concerns the Dale family, who live in the "Small House", a dower house intended for the widowed mother of the owner of the estate. As with all of Trollope's novels, this one contains many sub-plots and numerous minor characters. Plantagenet Palliser makes his first appearance, as he contemplates a dalliance with Griselda Grantly, the now-married Lady Dumbello, daughter of the Archdeacon introduced earlier in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. "SMALL HOUSE" also continues Trollope's association with artist John Millais. Millais displays on this occasion a refined style with finer detailing and more confidence then we saw last in "ORLEY FARM".
Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1877, 1877
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings for all three books in the three volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co. London, 1861
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings of both books in this two volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Publication Date: 1867
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Edwards, M. Ellen (illustrator). [fine and bright] With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1867. 2 pp undated ads in each volume. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt, board edges beveled. First Edition of these adventures of Harry Clavering, beginning with Julia Brabazon jilting him in favor of a wealthy old debauchee. It is a novel of atmosphere, and the atmosphere is of that sort very dangerous for the English novelist.; the green-lighted, close-scented gambling rooms, the shabby adventures of half-deserted spas, the shelving beaches of foreign watering-places, concealed accents, stolen passports, impoverished counts and impertinent ladies' maids. [Walpole, quoted in Gerould] Trollope himself later recalled that "I consider the story as a whole to be good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." There were no subsequent two-volume editions following this first one. Sadleir notes two very similar binding variants: one (presumably earlier) with the front covers and spines stamped in gilt and in black, and the other identical except that the black-stamping is replaced by blind-stamping. This copy is in between -- a variant not noted by Sadleir: there is black-and-gold-stamping on the spines, but gold-and-blind-stamping on the front covers (there is always just blind-stamping on the rear covers). Condition is remarkably fine and bright, with the only flaws being a tiny rubbed spot at the foot of Volume I's spine, and one slightly cracked (original) coffee-brown endpaper. Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 27; Wolff 6771 (with cloth stamping identical to this set's). Housed in a handsome morocco-backed slipcase with black leather labels, with inner chemise. Provenance (in addition to binder Burn's ticket in Vol I and Glasgow bookseller MacLehose's ticket in Vol II): bookplates of Philadelphian Moncure Biddle (1882-1956), whose library was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1952 (lot 749), plus bookplates of "Yardley.".
TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Prime Minister. Original cloth, housed in two custom cloth clamshell boxes. London: Chapman & Hall, 1876. 4 Vols. First edition. Sadleir 45. Not in Wolff. Cloth lightly scuffed, light occasional foxing to Vol. One, else a very good or better set.
Published by London Chapman & Hall 1859, 1859
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
3 volumes. First edition. 8vo, original publisher's brown cloth, the boards decorated in blind, the spines sometime very expertly rebacked but retaining the original blind-decorated and gilt lettered spine panels. Now housed in a very handsome custom clamshell box of marbled paper backed in dark brown morocco gilt lettered and banded. iv, 335; iv, 344; iv, 331pp. A very handsome set, the cloth especially well preserved with the restoration done being extremely discreet and unobtrusive, the text much nicer than is typically found, the paper clean and fresh with any spotting being only very occasion and extremely minor, everything tight and sound, a superior copy to set to any other we are aware of currently in commerce. A VERY SCARCE TROLLOPE FIRST EDITION, AND QUITE RARE INDEED. IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. One of the author's most elusive works, The Bertrams is an unusual novel of world travel, matrimony, money, social strata, and relationships. ".perhaps the most serious objection which can be brought against the book from the point of view of literature is that it is too much like life." - Algar Thorold, 1905. While it may seem odd today for a novel to be criticized for being 'too much like life', for its time The Bertrams has a dark tone, yet, it is scattered with comical minor characters; to us it seems very fresh and modern. It also includes hilarious descriptions of British tourists in the Middle East.
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London, 1857
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Editions, First Printings with "tattooed" for "tabooed" on page 269, line 24 printed in the second book. An attractive copy bound with leather spines. The books are in great shape. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Smith, Elder, London, 1861
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. J.E. Millais (illustrator). First Edition. A key work by Trollope, the 4th of the Barchester sequence, and one of the great 19th century novels. First edition in 3 volumes and in original cloth. Originally issued serially in the opening 3 volumes of the Cornhill magazine, the novel was published in book form by Smith, Elder in April 1861 [Sadleir #11]. It was never reprinted in 3-decker format. This set is in the publishers' greyish purple grained cloth with elaborate blind-stamping to the boards and lettering and decoration to spine in gilt. All 6 illustrations by Millais present and correct. 16pp catalogue dated April 1861 bound in at end of Vol. 3 (as per Sadleir). Professional restoration to wear at heads, tails and spine edges using period cloth. Endpapers replaced using canary-yellow coated paper. Minor grubbiness passim but a perfectly sound set in as near to original state as one is reasonably likely to find. Each volume in protective acetate sleeve. No other copies online at time of listing. A rare opportunity to acquire a first edition set of this iconic novel. Scans sent on request.
Publication Date: 1879
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
[inscribed to Cardinal Manning] London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, being the ninth volume in the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This copy has the ad leaf in the earliest state, listing nine of the titles (including this one) as "Ready" and SPENSER as "In the Press." Condition is very good (moderate wear at the spine ends, front endpaper cracked). Sadleir (TROLLOPE) 54. This is an inscribed presentation copy from Trollope, with the following inscription in Trollope's hand at the top of the title page: "His Eminence Cardinal Manning | with the author's regards". On the title page there is an inkstamp, and on the front pastedown a bookplate, "Ex Oblatorum S Caroli. Bibliotheca" and bearing the word "humilitas." This was the Oblates of St. Charles, centered at St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Bayswater (whose motto is "humilitas"). Quoting from the Manning papers at Emory University, Henry Edward Manning (1808-1892) was one of the most influential English Roman Catholic figures of his time. From his ordination in the Church of England in 1832, through his conversion to Catholicism in 1851, and to his death in 1892, his words and actions were powerful influences in England and in the Roman Catholic Church. Quoting also from the History of St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church, [Following Manning's conversion,] in 1851 Cardinal Wiseman sent his most prestigious convert, Henry Edward Manning, to Bayswater to found a community whose mission would be to revitalize the clergy and faithful in the new diocese of Westminster. Manning drew his inspiration from St Charles Borromeo, who had founded an order of Oblate priests to renew the diocese of Milan in the sixteenth century. Manning founded the Oblates of St Charles at Bayswater, and had considerable success in evangelizing northwest London. In 1865, Manning was made second Archbishop of Westminster, and later Cardinal. As for Trollope, he was raised as a High Church Anglican; he became a mild supporter of the Oxford Movement, and "his experiences in Ireland brought him into a closer sympathy with the Roman Catholic Church. However, he was hardly ready to follow Newman to Rome!" [Niles]. Robert H. Taylor, in "Letters to Trollope" (The Trollopian, Sept. 1946), noted that after Trollope's death (three years after inscribing this book), a leather portfolio was found, containing the thirty letters he had received over the years that he treasured the most; one of Trollope's most-treasured letters was the one from Cardinal Manning thanking him for the gift of this very book. Note: the Oblates of St. Charles continued their ministry at St. Mary's until the mid-1970s, when they were dissolved by Cardinal Heenan. Since that time, numerous volumes from their library (with the same official bookplate and/or inkstamp as appear in this copy) have appeared in the market; we see about a dozen other "ex-Oblates" volumes on the market at the present. It was in 1979 that the future Trollope bibliographer Walter Smith bought this volume from a major dealer.
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1855
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [3], iv, [1], 2-336, [1], 2-24 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in blind and gold lettering on the spine. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Housed in a custom slipcase with marbled inner papers. Sadleir 16-17. Trollope Society, "The Warden". The publisher's catalog is dated September of 1854. Extraordinarily difficult to find in exceptional condition. The first of the Barset novels to be published, Trollope's Warden deals with zealous reformers pitted against the traditions of the Anglican Clergy. Trollope's favorite motifs of morality and tradition pitted against selfishness are explored, in a quiet, subtle Victorian setting. A bookplate on the front pastedown.
Published by Basil Blackwell and Houghton Mifflin Co, Oxford, Boston & New York, 1928
Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Leather Bound. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Charles S. Olcott (illustrator). The Shakespeare Head Edition. Oxford, Boston & New York: Basil Blackwell and Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928. Charles S. Olcott. The Shakespeare Head Edition. Leather Bound. H: 9 1/4", D: 6 1/2", W: 1 1/2" 14 Volumes. Anthony Trollope, The.
Published by Pickering, 2000
ISBN 10: 1870587995ISBN 13: 9781870587990
Seller: Asano Bookshop, Nagoya, AICHI, Japan
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New ,73/4" - 93/4" tall. 48 vols Can You Forgive Her?/Ayala's Angel/Dr Wortle's School/Phineas Finn/The Eustace Diamonds/Phineas Redux/Rachel Ray/Lady Anna/Prime Minister/The MacDermots of Ballycloran/The Duke's Children/The Belton Estate/The Way We Live Now/The Three Clerks/The Kellys and The O'Kellys/Sir Harry Hotspur/Orley Farm/The Bertrams/An Eye for an Eye/Cousin Henry/He Knew He Was Right/Claverings/Castle Richmond/The American Senator/The Warden/John Caldigate/The Landleaguers/Barchester Towers/Dr Thorne/Nina Balatka/Framely Parsonage/Ralph the Heir/Kept in the Dark/The Small House at Allington/Marion May/The Last Chronicle of Barset/The Vicar of Bullhamton/The Fixed Period/The Golden Lion of Grandpere/Miss Mackenzie/Is He Popenjoy?/Harry Heathcote of Gangoil/La Vendee/Linda Tressell/Mr Scarborough's Family/An Autobiography/The Struggles of Brown,Jones and Robinson/An Old Man's Love First Printing.
Published by [printed by George E. Eyre & William Spottiswoode] 1857 [plus undated ephemera], London, 1857
Seller: Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC (IOBA), Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: [Varies by item included]. First Edition, First Printing. As noted above, this listing includes (i) a notable work of postal information on London and its Post Office Districts, (ii) an original commemorative Irish stamp featuring Anthony Trollope, and (iii) an ORIGINAL SURVEYOR'S CARD SIGNED BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE (who served as a Postal Surveyor in Ireland, the place where he first came to happiness after having a miserable youth during which he had thought about suicide). The book itself is quite uncommon to the market and the Surveyor card [to which someone later added "Novelist" in red ink] is QUITE SCARCE and is ABSOLUTELY RARE WHEN SIGNED BY TROLLOPE.London was first divided into postal districts in 1857-1858, to a plan devised by Sir Rowland Hill in 1856 a circle of roughly twelve miles radius from the General Post Office in St. Martin's-le-Grand being split into ten districts, "each to be treated, in many respects, as a separate town". The present alphabetical index and guide first appeared in 1856, but for this edition was furnished with maps of the districts, converting it into one of the very earliest London street atlases. A folding index map covers the whole area, followed by individual maps of the whole of the Eastern Central (EC) and Western Central (WC) districts, and further maps of the innermost portions of the Northern, North Eastern, Eastern, South Eastern, Southern, South Western, Western, and North Western districts these corresponding approximately to the modern head districts N1, E1, SE1, SW1, W1 and NW1. The North Eastern and Southern districts were abolished in the 1860s following a report by Anthony Trollope hence no modern S or NE London postcodes. The volume contains one folding and ten single-page maps, the rectos only included in pagination. There is an index with alphabetical thumb-guides to the notable leaves and the volume is bound in the original drab printed boards (or perhaps wrappers), neatly rebacked in a match of the original sheep. While the leaves show some occasional mild spotting, this remains a very good copy of the work. The front pastedown bears an ownership inscription of W. M. King "Northern District of Scotland". In addition to the practical importance of this postal system, the relationship between its creator, Sir Rowland Hill, and the great Victorian Author Anthony Trollope is notable. We quote from John A. Cannon (as stated in The Oxford Companion to British History): Hill, Sir Rowland (17951879). Inventor of penny postage. Hill was born in Kidderminster, son of a schoolmaster and pioneer of shorthand. He took over his father's school and instituted a novel system of discipline, involving the boys as assessors. After 1828 he abandoned teaching, experimented with a number of inventions, and in 1835 became secretary to a commission to colonize south Australia. He then became interested in the postal service, which was so prohibitively expensive that the revenue of the Post Office was falling in a period of rapid population growth and commercial expansion. Hill suggested pre-payment of the postage set at a standard delivery charge irrespective of distance, and the use of an adhesive stamp. A pamphlet of 1837 attracted attention and penny postage was adopted in 1839. Hill was put in charge but met with vast obstruction from within the Post Office and was dismissed in 1842. Reinstated by Russell in 1846, he held office until 1864. He was knighted in 1860 and Gladstone said of his reform that it had 'run like wildfire through the civilized world'. Anthony Trollope, who worked at the Post Office with Hill, was less flattering, calling him: 'a hard taskmaster who had little understanding of the ways of men it was a pleasure for me to differ from him on all occasions.' Trollope, in his Autobiography, stated of Hill: "At this time I did not stand very well with the dominant interest at the General Post Office. My old friend Colonel Maberly had been, some time since, squeezed into, and his place was filled by Mr. Rowland Hill, the.
Published by Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1881
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
The New Edition of the Works of Anthony Trollope. Octavo, 28 volumes bound into 14 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red and brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Best known for his Chronicles of Barsetshire, Victorian era English novelist Anthony Trollope was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of novels addressing current political, social, and gender issues. Writers such as William Thackeray, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins admired and befriended Trollope, praising his understanding of the quotidian world of institutions, official life, and daily business.
Published by Smith, Elder and Co London, 1855
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy finely bound in leather. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition. We buy Trollope First Editions.
Published by Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1929
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
One of 525 sets, this being a DELUXE COPY, WITH A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT. Illustrated throughout with photogravures of Barsetshire by Charles S. Olcott, the frontispiece of each volume in two states, one HANDCOLORED. 14 vols. 8vo. With a Remarkable Page of Manuscript, Mentioning Tauchnitz. With a remarkable Autograph Manuscript fragment inlaid to size and bound in, reading: "name is a part of Prussia; - and that convention with Saxony has been especially valuable to English authors, for it has enabled them to deal on fair and reciprocal terms with that most energetic of publishers, Baron [Tauchnitz]". The reference to "that most energetic of publishers" can no other than Baron Tauchnitz; Trollope himself was published by Tauchnitz on the Continent. Ransom 62 Original three quarter brown morocco and cloth, joints slightly rubbed, one head neatly repaired Illustrated throughout with photogravures of Barsetshire by Charles S. Olcott, the frontispiece of each volume in two states, one HANDCOLORED. 14 vols. 8vo One of 525 sets, this being a DELUXE COPY, WITH A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT.
Published by Chapman & Hall. 1861, 1861
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
32pp cata. (Jan. 1861). Contemp. half maroon morocco, spine with raised gilt bands. v.g. See Trollope Society Catalogue 7. This copy with Presentation Inscription, 'Blanche Thwaites - From the Author'. Comparison with Trollope's hand confirms that that the inscription is by the author himself, and not made on his behalf. The identity of Blanche Thwaites remains uncertain. Bound into the following e.ps, a manuscript transcription of Alaric Watts' alliterative poem, 'An Austrian Army awfully arrayed.'. It is in a similar hand to Trollope's, but cannot be categorically attributed to him.
Published by London, Strahan And Company, 1869
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Finely bound both in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands and titling. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 0 pages; Description: 2 v. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Husbands--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Form/Genre: Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Sadleir, 31. Illustrations listed as appearing at p. 304 of vol. I and at p. 206 of vol. II, ordinarily used as frontispieces, are inserted at their respective pages. Sadleir notes only one copy in this state. 2 Kg.
Published by Chapman and Hall. London, 1859
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Three volumes. Scarce. iv, 335; iv, 344; iv, 331pp. Original brown cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines laid down. Original e/ps retained. Sl. lean to all vols. Cloth rubbed and sl. soiled and label removed from upper bd of vol. III. Pages browned, neat ownership signature to each volume. generally a clean and sound set. VG.
Published by Philadelphia, PA: Gebbie and Company, 1900, 1900
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
[Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION SET. Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo (22 x 16 x ). Each volume with a frontispiece and three further illustrated plates. Number 5 of just 250 sets thus. Finely bound by HADDON and Co. in black full crushed morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and gilt ruling to margins of boards. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, and marbled endpapers with gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Spines sunned to brown, with some accomplished repair and touch-up. Good.
Published by London, Strahan And Company, 1869
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Finely bound both in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands and titling. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 0 pages; Description: 2 v. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Husbands--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Form/Genre: Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Sadleir, 31. Illustrations listed as appearing at p. 304 of vol. I and at p. 206 of vol. II, ordinarily used as frontispieces, are inserted at their respective pages. Sadleir notes only one copy in this state. 2 Kg.