Anthony Trollope — Linda Tressel

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, c1879. Leather. A handsomely bound example of the very scarce remainder issue of Anthony Trollope's cautionary tale, bound from the unsold sheets of the first edition. A very scarce work in all editions.First published in 1868, this is Sadleir's 'secondary or remainder issue', which he dates as 'probably 1879, but perhaps 1880&apos. [Sadleir 30]As the first edition of this work sold poorly, the publisher's 'bound up the unsold sheets of the two-volume first edition in a single volume&apos. Despite this being a single volume edition, not 'two volumes in one' as stated to the title page, 'it is noteworthy that no new single title-page was printed for this issue [..] but that the two original title-pages were retained&apos.Linda Tressel was the second of three novels Trollope intended to publish anonymously in the 1860s, along with Nina Balatka and The Golden Lion of Granpere.The plot revolves around the heroine, Linda Tressel, who is pressured by her religious zealot aunt to marry an unpleasant man she finds repulsive. It is a cautionary tale about the opposing pulls of fanaticism, love, stubbornness and greed for property.Bound without half titles, without Vol. II title page, and without preface leaf.Rebound in quarter morocco, with endpapers renewed.Written by Anthony Trollope, an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Rebound in quarter morocco, with cloth covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned due to paper type, with the odd spot to first and last few leaves Faint blind stamp to title page, with small stamp to verso of final leaf. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .