Barchester Towers

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Here Trollope combines ecclesiastical politics with courtship, social rivalry and satire. First edition, 3 volumes, in contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards. Spine, gilt tooling & gilt titles to red calf labels, edges rubbed. Internally, V1, [3], (viii) only, [1], 2-305, [1]. V2, (iv), [1], 2-299, [1]. V3, (iv), [1], 2-321 pp, [1]. Printed by Spottiswoode, gilt lib no at spine heads, ink library no to fpds, ink library name to tps (Roberton), bound as is often the case without the adverts, with tattooed for tabooed in V2. 183*113 mm. Sadleir 5. Originally intended to be a short story, Trollope changed his mind following a hiatus having written Chapter VIII. Because of this break in writing, from February 1855 to May 1856, literary scholar John Sutherland has observed some minor inconsistencies in the later text. The success of the longer novel resulted in Trollope continuing the Chronicles of Barsetshire series.