Trollope, Anthony | Castle Richmond, the first edition

Property from an Important American Collection

Trollope, Anthony

Castle Richmond. London: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1860

3 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, uncut, without the publisher's advertisements to the end of volume III. Publisher's "secondary" binding in green cloth by Bone & Son, stamped in blind, spines gilt; corners rubbed, covers lightly soiled, spines a little faded. Collector's green morocco clamshell box.

First edition, the secondary binding in green cloth.

Inspired by Trollope's years spent in Ireland, this novel considers the effects of the potato famine as well as Irish Catholicism and Protestantism in the background of the main narrative, where two cousins compete for the hand of the destitute yet aristocratic Lady Clara Desmond.

Sadleir notes that the first and second issues appeared in February and April respectively, both in purple cloth. The present copy is the secondary edition, issued in green cloth on 13 July 1860.

An excellent copy of an extremely scarce work.

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Sadleir 10