THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

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Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.Sumner & Stillman [ABAA]

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[in the two-in-one binding] With Forty Illustrations. In Two Volumes [in one]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. Original green cloth decorated in black and gilt. First Edition in book form, following publication in twenty monthly parts. Sadleir initially attributed the forty illustrations to Luke Fildes (as they are signed "LF"), but subsequently corrected it to Lionel Fawkes. This was one of Trollope's six "social satire" novels, the tale of the rise and fall of Augustus Melmotte's financial empire -- and its effect on his daughter's options for marriage. Though Walpole praised this book up and down ("one of the most remarkable of all English novels published between 1860 and 1890"), Trollope himself thought little of it: "The book has all the fault which is to be attributed to almost all satires. The accusations are exaggerated. The vices are coloured, so as to make effect rather than to represent truth." This copy is bound two-volumes-in-one (with the original two title pages), in bright green cloth decorated in black and gilt (as with the original two-volume binding). This was not a "remainder" binding (cheap, plain bindings in which publishers would sometimes put unsold sets of sheets); rather it was an alternative binding offered to the public, especially at railway stalls since one volume was more convenient for railway reading. Sadleir does not mention this binding -- though he does mention that eight months after publication the remaining sheets were bought out by Chatto & Windus and issued with a C&W title page and binding (-- which means that this Chapman & Hall two-in-one binding was indeed issued on or very shortly after the date of publication). This is a bright, very good-plus copy -- with a little wrinkling on the spine, a touch of wear along the rear fore-edge and tips, and cracked endpapers (typical for such a hefty volume). The plates are unusually clean and sharp. Sadleir (TROLLOPE) p. 147.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
Author
Trollope, Anthony
Publication year
1875
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
Fawkes, Lionel
Edition
First Edition.
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Fiction (19th Century)

Sumner & Stillman [ABAA]

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We deal in literary first editions of the Nineteenth, and early Twentieth, centuries -- writers such as Conrad, Dickens, Doyle, Hardy, James, Kipling, London, Stevenson, Trollope, Twain, Verne, Wilde, etc.

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