The Way We Live Now

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First book edition, complete with all 40 illustrations, 2 volumes, bound as 1, in the publishers green cloth, gilt titles, blocked in black to covers, edges rubbed. Professionally respined old laid down, gilt title. Internally, half title, B&W tissue guarded frontis, (vi), [1] illus. list, [1], [1], 2-320 pp, 20 B&W full page illustrations. Half title, (vi), [1] ill list, [1], [1], 2-319 pp, 20 B&W full page illustrations. Some faint edge browning, occasional spot, light offsetting to V1 title only. A Very Good example, clean and tight. (215*138 mm). (Sadleir 44). Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life.