Details
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Lady Anna. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. 2 vols., 8vo original brick red pebble-grain cloth, stamped in black and blind, lettered in black and gilt, worn at ends of spines and most fore-corners, cellotape stains on endpapers, brown half morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST BINDING. Sadleir, Trollope 42 (suggesting that the Tauchnitz edition might procede this). Trollope wrote this story about female constancy while en route from England to Australia. At the end if the novel Lady Anna and her husband emigrate to Australia (Trollope promised a sequel, but never wrote one). (2)
Provenance
Signature on front free endpaper of vol. 1 of J L Merivale (the John Lewis Merivale, 1815-86, who was Trollope's life-long friend?)