Trollope, Anthony
Collection of first editions
£504
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
all 8vo unless otherwise stated, comprising:
The Warden. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Contemporary tan half calf (spine-labels renewed), iv 336 pp.;
Barchester Towers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 3 volumes, later half calf by J. D. Kennedy of Hawick (spine-labels renewed), viii 305, iv 299, iv 321, volume 1 bound without half-title and advertisements, each volume inscribed ‘Roberton Library’ on title-page, associated contemporary shelfmarks in manuscript to front pastedowns and gilt-stamped to spines, variable light soiling to contents;
The Three Clerks. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. 8vo in 12s, 3 volumes, modern half morocco, iv 340, iv 322, iv 334 pp., browning to corners of title-pages from turn-ins of an earlier binding, volume 2 sigs. K-L lower corners creased;
and 5 others (these not collated), comprising The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), He Knew He Was Right, 1869 (2 volumes, later half roan, rebacked), Phineas Finn (2 volumes, modern half morocco), The Vicar of Bulhampton, 1870 (modern half morocco), and The Way We Live Now, 1875 (2 volumes, modern half morocco), together with a one-volume edition of Orley Farm, 1866 (original cloth, recased) (17)