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TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-82). The American Senator. London: Virtue and Co., Limited for Chapman and Hall, 1877. 3 volumes, 8° (186 x 123mm). Half titles. (Scattered light spotting.) Original ochre cloth [Sadleir's primary binding], upper boards with design blocked in black, lower boards decorated in blind with central design within roundel enclosed by triple fillet border, spines decorated in black and lettered from blocks in gilt, lemon yellow endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, spines darkened, occasional marking on boards), gilt morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: Merivale (?Trollope's boyhood friend John Merivale, pencilled name on title, half-title or front free endpaper) -- Michael Thomas Harvey Sadleir (1888-1957, collector and bibliographer and biographer of Trollope, bookplates on upper pastedowns) -- Barton Wood Currie (b.1878, collector and bibliographer, gilt morocco bookplates on upper pastedowns and pencilled name on half-title of volume I) -- William Woolsey Yardley (bookplates on upper pastedowns).
FIRST EDITION, PRIMARY BINDING. THE SADLEIR COPY WITH HIS NOTES AND CRITICISMS. The present copy contains extensive pencilled notes in Sadleir's hand on the rear free endpapers of all three volumes, and at the end of the text of volume III is the [?reading] date '3-2-1923'; the notes on the endpaper of this volume conclude: 'This is a badly constructed book and the title (as T. himself realises) is unsuitable. Remove the Senator and the satire on Americans and you have an excellent Trollope tale of country gentlemen and love affairs. He has not blended the ingredients'. Sadleir Trollope 46. (3)
FIRST EDITION, PRIMARY BINDING. THE SADLEIR COPY WITH HIS NOTES AND CRITICISMS. The present copy contains extensive pencilled notes in Sadleir's hand on the rear free endpapers of all three volumes, and at the end of the text of volume III is the [?reading] date '3-2-1923'; the notes on the endpaper of this volume conclude: 'This is a badly constructed book and the title (as T. himself realises) is unsuitable. Remove the Senator and the satire on Americans and you have an excellent Trollope tale of country gentlemen and love affairs. He has not blended the ingredients'. Sadleir Trollope 46. (3)
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